Basketball Quotes
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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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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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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 try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
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Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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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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Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.
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My first love was 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 enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
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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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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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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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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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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
