Basketball Quotes - Page 30

• It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

  Akeem Ayers

  Sports, Football, Crazy

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• Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.

  Calvin Pryor

  Football, Moving, Squares

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

  Stephan James

  Volleyball, Track, Fields

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Sports, Team

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

  Billy Kennedy

  College, Men, Young

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Children, Disappointment, Team

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Team, School

  "As if nothing had changed in our nation since last February, an Army general, a colour guard and military jets introduce the Superbowl" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

  John Amaechi

  Ideas, People, Looks

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

  John Amaechi

  Home, Player, Order

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

  Stephen Curry

  Golf, Expectations, Trying

  Source: wearegolf.org

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• I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  College, Years, Broken

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  War, School, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

  Gene Perret

  Mean, Grandmother, Grandchildren

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• When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can't do that anymore.

  Drew Magary

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We got almost the entire team coming back; we only had two seniors last year. We plan not just on making it back, but on taking the next step.

  Nate Oats

  Senior, Team, Years

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• I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Rap, School, Mean

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Strong, Father, Mean

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• Bill Clinton did midnight basketball. He is not looked at by this current generation of Democrats as anywhere near the hero he was back in the nineties.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hero, Midnight, Generations

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I did takwondo from the time I was pretty young and also played I did taekwondo for martial arts and then also played football, baseball, and basketball against older kids because of my brother being older. I learned pretty quickly to not be intimidated and to not back down.

  Robbie Lawler

  Baseball, Football, Art

  Source: www.octagonbuzz.com

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• I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

  Ira Glass

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

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• There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.

  Nate Oats

  Thinking, Honest, Reason

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• We're gonna get some time to sit down individually with each player and see what their role is.

  Nate Oats

  Player, Roles

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• The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

  Nate Oats

  Games, Green, Bowling

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• I'm most excited about going swimming and riding water slides, shooting off fireworks, and playing basketball, and things like that. That's what I really love doing. Summer is a great time.

  Girl Talk

  Summer, Swimming, Water

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.

  Nate Oats

  Thinking, Next Week, Two

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