Basketball Quotes
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We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
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Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.
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I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.
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I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
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My teammates know I’m down to earth. I’ll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.
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There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.
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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.
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When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.
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I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
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I've accomplished everything I tried to accomplish in basketball.
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The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.
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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.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
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Whether you're tall and you play a basketball player, or overweight and you play somebody who is dealing with the issues behind the weight, we all have to pull from real life to make those performances authentic.
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I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.
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An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.
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The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.
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On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.
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The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.
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Basketball is a pure invention.
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It's the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.
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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
