Nba Quotes - Page 9

• I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

  Dwight Howard

  Kids, Blessing

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• No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Years, Half

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• The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Business, Association

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• I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Creativity, Winning

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.10, Penguin

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• I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.

  Ray Allen

  Dream, Winning, Finals

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• Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS.

  Marvin Barnes

  Fabulous

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• I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

  Rico Love

  Successful, Years, Games

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• There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner

  Ted Leonsis

  Owners

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• When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

  Gilbert Arenas

  People, Legacy, World

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• I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

  Ray Allen

  Play, My Family, Situation

  "Ray Allen Says He Won’t Play This Season, Will Make Decision On Future This Summer" by Jack Winter, uproxx.com. March 04, 2015.

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• Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.

  Manu Ginobili

  Country, Cheer, Winning

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• You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.

  Kevin Durant

  Cheer, Crazy, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

  Mark Cuban

  Doe, Making Money

  "Twitter trouble: Mark Cuban fined, Courtney Love sued - over tweets" by Mark Milian, latimesblogs.latimes.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Emphasize small goals when you have a team that isn’t going to win a lot of games

  Mike Dunlap

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

  Adam Silver

  Victory, Compromise, Bargaining

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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• What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

  Andrew Bogut

  Strong, Stress, Careers

  "Andrew Bogut Calls Those Who Can’t Understand His Poor Injury Luck ‘Pretty Uneducated’". sports.yahoo.com. March 27, 2012.

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• It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

  Eddie Murphy

  Basketball, Mistake, Bigs

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• A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves

  K. C. Jones

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• You don't go through life, you grow through life

  Kevin Ollie

  Basketball, Grows

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• You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Memories, Team

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• You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

  Lawrence Frank

  Basketball, Heart, Player

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• Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

  Lawrence Frank

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Teammate, Succeed

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