Basketball Quotes
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That's my tag, whether I like it or not.
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Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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It's the craziest thing I've ever been around. I've never been on a team, coach or player, where this has happened. I just hope we can take the positives to Rhode Island and see if we can play good basketball again.
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At the end of the day, before basketball, before anything, I'm a man.
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How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
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What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
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His confidence grew as we kept going back in to him, and he got more productive from that. I think guys started relying on the fact that he could be counted on to catch the basketball and convert.
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I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
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All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.
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It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
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I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
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I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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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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When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
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The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
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I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.
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I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
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Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.
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It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.
