Basketball Player Quotes - Page 6

• As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

  Raekwon

  Basketball, Player, Balls

  Source: www.gq.com

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• There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.

  Ayana Mathis

  Basketball, Country, Athlete

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.

  Calvin Ayre

  Basketball, Frustration, Player

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• I want people to follow their dreams, yes but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  J. Cole

  Basketball, Dream, Kids

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• I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in the same way, but to be honest, I don't care that much. It isn't like a basketball player is out on the court hoping that people like the game of basketball as the game goes on. If people don't see it, they don't see it. It is a fragile thing and most people recognize that and respect it. Even if for whatever reason, they don't like the painting.

  John Lurie

  Basketball, Player, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.

  Sam Cassell

  Basketball, Dog, Team

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• There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Player, Doubt

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• As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

  Stephen King

  Basketball, Optimistic, Player

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• Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

  Alwin Nikolais

  Basketball, Dance, Mean

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• Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

  George Archer

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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• I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Responsibility, Player

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• Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Basketball, Player, One Day

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• My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

  Grace Jones

  Basketball, Mother, Brother

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• I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can't miss. That's the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they're trying to do to you. It's awesome.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Basketball, Running, Cutting

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• I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

  Chuck Connors

  Basketball, Player, Defense

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• I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

  Zendaya

  Basketball, Art, Team

  "Zendaya: The “Shake It Up!” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. August 29, 2011.

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• As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

  Ben Silbermann

  Basketball, Kids, Player

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• I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Player, Who I Am

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

  Marvin Barnes

  Basketball, Player, Monk

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• I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

  French Montana

  Basketball, Soccer, School

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• When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Player, Laughing

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• All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Player, People

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• I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stress, Mean

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• We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

  Tupac Shakur

  Basketball, Football, Mother

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