Basketball Player Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Workout, Real

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

  Dallas Clayton

  Basketball, Writing, Player

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• I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

  Lamar Odom

  Basketball, Player, Needs

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• When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Dad, Home

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• I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, School, Player

  "Q&A: Michael Jordan on high school and the Jordan Classic". Interview with Christopher Lawlor, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 14, 2005.

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• I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

  Andrew Skurka

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

  Source: ryanjordan.com

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• You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Player, Body

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• People in general misunderstand me. I'm very aware of the stereotype that comes with being a basketball player. But I'm well-rounded. I'm cultured. It's funny: When I speak, people are like, "Wow! You can really talk." I'm like, "What did you expect?"

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Player, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

  Eddie Murphy

  Basketball, Character, Player

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• My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

  Justin Timberlake

  Basketball, Growing Up, Player

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The great thing about [Michael] Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of times like a lot of the basketball players, not to be getting on basketball, but, with a lot of the basketball players you might have one superstar on the team, and they're not willing to play up to par with the way he is, so they don't make it. But then you have some celebrities on the basketball team, and they don't know how to get along with each other!

  Ginuwine

  Basketball, Team, Player

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Blessed, Player

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• Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Basketball, Character, Bad Day

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• I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

  Warren Moon

  Basketball, Player, Size

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• Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Basketball, Player, Achievement

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• My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Inspirational, Basketball, Hero

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• In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

  David Morse

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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• I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Fighting, Player

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• Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Player, Incredibles

  "Harlem Globetrotters Star Meadowlark Lemon Dies at 83" by the Associated Press, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 28, 2015.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Basketball, Native American

  "Author Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight'". Interview with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. April 11, 2007.

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• The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

  George Plimpton

  Basketball, Sports, Player

  George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• A big market is something that doesn't really concern me too much. It's cool to think about, it's good for off-the-court deals. But I'm more of a basketball player. That's what I want to be known as. And this is the best place for me to play basketball. I'm glad I'm here.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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