Basketball Quotes
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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.
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I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
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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 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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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.'
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The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
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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 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 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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Whatever he does, whether it's playing basketball or lifting weights, he is going to be physical and tough.
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People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
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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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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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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.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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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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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
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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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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.
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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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.
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
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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.
