Basketball Quotes
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My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Number one in high school, when I was sort of entrenched in the street life, if you will, the major thing that kept me plugged in the mainstream was athletics. I played basketball throughout high school. I also played football, but I played basketball throughout high school.
Carl Hart
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It's the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.
Andre Iguodala
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Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
Denis Leary
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I know when I need to be pushing it full speed; I know when I got to probe and allow the flow to open up, because, at the end of the day, on the basketball court, something's going to open up.
Draymond Green
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It's tough not having any down time. But it's something I've always done. I have a lot of friends on the team and I love playing basketball.
Kevin Moore Chroma Key
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Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
Joe Namath
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I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.
Charles Barkley
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This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
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But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.
Wilt Chamberlain
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We just didn't finish the game off. We've been having that problem all season. Our problem is just stopping people and rebounding the basketball. Until we get that under control, we're going to continue to struggle through 2006 as well.
Allen Iverson
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Our guys played perfect basketball over the last three minutes. The first game of a tournament is a little tougher, but we handled it. We got through it, and now we know we need to play a great 40 minutes for a chance to go to the NCAA Tournament.
Bob Thomason
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Those first big concerts we played as 'Throwing Copper' started to really reach people worldwide - I think we played our first big arena show at the George Estate basketball arena down in Atlanta. I remember showing up and standing on stage and just being like, 'I can't believe this is going to be full of people. This is huge.'
Ed Kowalczyk
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I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
Rick Pitino
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I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.
Eddie Alvarez
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Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel Osteen
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Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.
Eli Manning
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Like basketball, fashion is hard work.
Amar'e Stoudemire
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They were willing to do anything to stop me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Everybody touches the basketball on offense for us. We don't run plays for particular people. We expect everybody to score and contribute defensively.
J. M. Roberts
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I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.
Anne Donovan
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I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it's like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball team.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves
K. C. Jones