Basketball Player Quotes - Page 8

• I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

  Jim Caviezel

  Basketball, Player, Gym Rats

  "Jim Caviezel Talks WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL, His Passion For Filmmaking and Why He'll Never Direct An Episode Of PERSON OF INTEREST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

  Frank Grillo

  Basketball, Jobs, Couple

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

  Terrell Owens

  Basketball, Football, Player

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• Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Player, Jordan

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• You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Player, Asian

  "Asian Americans remain rare in men's college basketball" by Bryan Chu, www.sfgate.com. December 16, 2008.

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• Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

  Eli Manning

  Basketball, Player, Chicago

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• Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

  Antonio Gates

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

  Eric Williams

  Basketball, Girl, Player

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• I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

  Josh Howard

  Basketball, School, Player

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• If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

  Benjamin Carson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Mean, Player

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• Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• My mom always tells me that... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.

  Isaiah Austin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• I'm pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn't practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all over the place. He does it by practicing free throws. That's the attitude I take: You don't get better at running by doing everything but running. You get better by running.

  Chris Solinsky

  Basketball, Running, Attitude

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• A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

  Tiger Woods

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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• Coaching staff: I know there's days you look at that film and you want to kill me. I'm not playing defense, taking bad shots, getting too many techs. But you always believe that I can be the guy. Through the tough times, you guys never left my side... That's something that I really appreciate and I never want to take you guys for granted. I thank you so much for being part of my life. And not just on the basketball court, but giving me talks about growing as a man first, and a basketball player next.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Player, Color

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• One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

  Warren Moon

  Basketball, Football, Makeup

  "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

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• If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Basketball

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• I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Player, Becoming

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Forget

  Source: www.expressionsofexcellence.com

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• My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Athlete, Player

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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