Basketball Quotes
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Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game
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Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
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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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Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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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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The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
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I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.
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Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
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I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.
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Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.
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I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
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Whatever he does, whether it's playing basketball or lifting weights, he is going to be physical and tough.
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I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
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I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.
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He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
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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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About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
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Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.
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It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
