Basketball Quotes - Page 22

• Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Might, Someday

  "Shaq Adds MBA to His Three NBA Titles", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

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• I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Police, Done, Miami

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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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• All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Motivational, Positive, Character

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• The only important statistic is the final score.

  Bill Russell

  Nba, Important, Finals

  "At 75, Russell still casts long shadow over All-Star circus" by Mark Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.

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• The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Powerful, Organization

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• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Determination, Adversity

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

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• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  Pat Riley

  Motivation, Attitude, Winning

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  A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational Sports

  "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.

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• This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Swimming, Diving Deep

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016

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• I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

  Moses Malone

  Team, Nba, Missing

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• In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

  Don Meyer

  Running, Player, Practice

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• I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

  Larry Bird

  Talking, Nba, Lord

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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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• 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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• I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

  Julius Erving

  Sports, Wise, Thinking

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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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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• Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

  Red Auerbach

  Player, Care, Court

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• We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

  Jim Valvano

  Thinking, Numbers, Should Have

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• Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

  Pat Summitt

  Winning, Games, Defense

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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• Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Straight Up, Ifs

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• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Player, Games, Coaching

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• Let your life be your argument.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Argument, Life Is

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