Basketball Quotes - Page 19

• Let your life be your argument.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Argument, Life Is

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• I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Team, Winning

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• Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

  Elgin Baylor

  Winning, Coaching, Easy

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• Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Practice, Nba, Play

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• Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

  Dennis Rodman

  Thinking, People, Who You Are

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Nba

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Life And Love

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• I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

  Tim Duncan

  Blessed, People, Choices

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  What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.135, Best Books on

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• When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Trouble, Can Do, You Can Do It

  "Duke of the Court". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

  Magic Johnson

  Killing, They Said, Kill Me

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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  Yao Ming

  America, Culture, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivation, Moving

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• I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Racism

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• My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

  Michael Jordan

  Mind, Body, Crutches

  "Your First Year a Rookie's Journey in Coaching". Book by Jason O. Smith (p. 8), August 18, 2009.

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• Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Courage

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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• If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

  John C. Maxwell

  Temper, Persons, Ifs

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• Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Ideas, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.124, Crown Business

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• Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

  Larry Bird

  School, Thinking, College

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• Basketball is basketball.

  Oscar Robertson

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Sports, Nba, Coaching

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Sports, Commitment

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Mother, Years

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.76, Random House

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• Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

  Doc Rivers

  Winning, Deodorant, Stink

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