Basketball Quotes
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You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
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When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.
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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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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.
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It also gives me the opportunity to stay in touch with basketball and it won't interfere with my school work at Mason City.
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Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.
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I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.
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As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game
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I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
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He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.
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Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.
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I can't palm a basketball.
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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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I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
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Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.
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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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It's a basketball thing, I think. I said I was just over 6'7," and they made it 6'8", and it's always kind of been that way.
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Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.
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Shooting is a pretty essential thing in basketball, and when you make shots, it's so much easier. There's so much less tension and less pressure on you.
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I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
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I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to cut back on my hobbies so I can work more.
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You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.
