Basketball Quotes
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Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
Paul Pierce
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The people from Oklahoma State absolutely adore him, ... It doesn't matter if they're 4 or 5, or people in their 70s. They love him here. Kids flock to him. At our summer basketball camps, he's the one they seek out. I got a letter from a lady last week. She said she asked her 8-year-old son what he wanted for Christmas. I'm thinking a truck, a bike, some toy. He told her he wanted an autographed picture of JamesOn.
Eddie Sutton
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All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!
Jeff Ament
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The whole NIT we're playing great defense, that's what we're trying to stress. We talked about, we can't hang our heads because we had injuries, we can't hang our heads because we're young. If you can head to the NIT Final Four, it means you're playing good basketball.
Rick Pitino
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You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.
Peyton Manning
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I thought we sputtered and I thought we did not make the extra pass. We played selfish basketball today, and I thought we played not smart.
C. Vivian Stringer
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Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
John Edgar Wideman
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I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.
Lily Collins
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I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN 'Coaches Corner' show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.
Craig Sager
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I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.
Frank McCourt
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I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link.
Barack Obama
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He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'
Tom Heinsohn
