Basketball Quotes
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It's my wedding night, and we're in a posh New York City hotel ready to ... you know ... when I get a call. It's Jim, and he's down in the lobby and he wants to meet with me. He tells me there's this kid named Louie Orr in Cincinnati that we just have to land, and he says he needs me to get there and seal the deal. I tell him, 'Jim, it's my wedding night.' He was single at the time and totally consumed with basketball, so I guess he didn't understand.
Rick Pitino
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Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
Phil Jackson
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Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
Denis Leary
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The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.
Alyssa Milano
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I just go out there and play basketball. God’s given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.
Chamique Holdsclaw
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Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
Blake Griffin
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
Allen Iverson
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Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
John Madden
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I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.
Jaylen Brown
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It's a parent's dream come true to watch your sons play at the highest level of college basketball.
Dell Curry
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You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.
John McEnroe
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I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout parents. They were always giving back and serving the community. So when I became fortunate enough and blessed to play the game of basketball, I was also fortunate enough to follow in my parents' footsteps and give back like the way they did.
Dikembe Mutombo
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You don't win games with being just good basketball players. You need toughness. You need heart. You need some feel for the game that isn't in the box score.
Dan Monson
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We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
Arthur Ashe
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Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.
Charles Krauthammer
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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'
Jeff Ament
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I feel like everybody knows what is at stake. Everybody knows the importance of every game. We had a good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out because it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team.
Allen Iverson
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I have my hopes as to how we can grow as a basketball club.
Phil Jackson
