Basketball Quotes
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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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I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
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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 love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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My first love was basketball.
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When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.
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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've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
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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.
