Basketball Quotes
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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer -
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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey -
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
Darryl Dawkins -
You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.
Paul Pierce -
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.
Red Auerbach -
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.
Brad Soderberg -
It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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 -
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach -
I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.
Ray Allen -
Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.
Paul Pierce -
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