Basketball Quotes
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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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We got off to a little bit of a slow start but now we're playing good basketball, ... It's important that we keep it going and put ourselves in a good position for the playoffs.
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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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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
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I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
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I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
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It will come down to who hits some shots and rebounds the basketball. I don't think there's any secret to either of us as far as that goes.
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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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My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.
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I don't want to get fined or anything, but it's a call you don't see much in college 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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All I know is basketball, and I'm sure a lot of guys in the locker room, all they know is basketball. So, they have to enjoy it.
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My first love was basketball.
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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
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I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
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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.
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Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.
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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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The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
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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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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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I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
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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.
