Basketball Quotes
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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.
Wilt Chamberlain -
Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
Merlin Olsen
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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.
Sarah Palin -
We know people can beat us in our conference. That's why we have to see if we can play our best basketball over the next four games.
Bob Thomason -
I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.
Saoirse Ronan -
You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
Ed Macauley -
He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
Wilt Chamberlain -
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.
Harvey Penick
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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.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Every coach's goal or dream is to try and be playing your best basketball towards the end of the season. We're starting to do that...but this is a league that's hard to get momentum and build on because of the fact that everybody is so good and you just can't get two, three, four wins in a row, per se.
Dan Monson -
Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.
Morgan Wootten -
My first love was basketball.
Stan Smith -
I just play basketball. I’m athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.
Chamique Holdsclaw -
It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.
Del Harris
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They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
Red Auerbach -
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.
George Raveling -
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.
Wilt Chamberlain -
Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
Wilt Chamberlain -
Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied
Sarah Dessen -
Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
Paul Pierce
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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?
George Archer -
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
Mike Krzyzewski -
This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.
Kay Yow -
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.
Charles Garfield