Basketball Quotes
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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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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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My first love was basketball.
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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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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
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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.
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The great thing about Michael Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of times like a lot of the basketball players, not to be getting on basketball, but, with a lot of the basketball players you might have one superstar on the team, and they're not willing to play up to par with the way he is, so they don't make it. But then you have some celebrities on the basketball team, and they don't know how to get along with each other!
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My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
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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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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.
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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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Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
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I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
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When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
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I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.
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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.
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I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
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Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.
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The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.
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I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.
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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
