Basketball Quotes
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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.
Tom Heinsohn
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When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
George Karl
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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.
Phil Jackson
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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.
Ed Macauley
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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.
Alonzo Mourning
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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.'
Tony Dorsett
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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.
Mike Krzyzewski
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The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
Stu Jackson
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We've got to go win basketball games right now to try to create who we want to be. And I think we're close.
Dan Monson
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey
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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.
Del Harris
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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.
Willis Earl Beal
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I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
Sue Wicks
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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.
George Raveling
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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.
Dan Monson
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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.
Burt Reynolds
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The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.
Cathy Hughes
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There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
Troy Polamalu
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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
Sherman Alexie
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Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.
Paul Pierce
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Whatever he does, whether it's playing basketball or lifting weights, he is going to be physical and tough.
Bobby Frasor
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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.
Nick McDonell