Basketball Quotes
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I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.
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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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Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
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I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.
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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.
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Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
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I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.
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Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.
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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!
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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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Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?
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I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
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He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
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You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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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.
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The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
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We're just a basketball team that doesn't have a lot of depth right now. That's our biggest challenge.
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I can't palm a basketball.
