Basketball Quotes
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I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
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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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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
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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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I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.
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Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
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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 never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
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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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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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My first love was basketball.
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The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
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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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I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
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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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Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.
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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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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.
