Basketball Quotes - Page 34

• I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Thinking, Giving

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• Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.

  Shane Battier

  Beautiful, Soccer, Athlete

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Interchangeability and versatility unlocks so many styles of play for your team. It's not the end all be all, but it helps you handle adversity so much better. It presents so many different matchup problems for the other team because they have to worry about so many different things. You can have long and athletic guys but if they're dummies then you're in trouble. What the Warriors have is amazing versatility, but also versatility in their basketball IQ.

  Shane Battier

  Team, Adversity, Warrior

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• When I first came in the NBA League you were slotted into a position and you did what you were slotted to do and there wasn't much room to expand your role. Today's game with the offensive schemes and the defensive schemes, it really allows to have a lot more creativity as a basketball player.

  Shane Battier

  Creativity, Player, League

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• The risk of failure is a very personal thing. One of the quotes I like, I think this came from the famous basketball coach from California - John Wooden - is that, "Successful people - winners - do everything necessary to prepare to win, without the certainty of winning." Everybody would do everything necessary to prepare to win if winning was a certainty. So you're willing to put yourself out publicly and privately and say, "I'm going to do this."

  Les Wexner

  Successful, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Baseball, Kids, League

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

  Kim Gordon

  Exercise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At a really young age you just play ball and you have fun and you don't see basketball as something as a career, it just drives you crazy. But as the years went by and the goals got bigger for myself you realize that without almost being obsessed you won't reach those goals. So the older I get I think the more I realize that it's almost necessary to get to that level.

  Kristaps Porzingis

  Fun, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.

  Kristaps Porzingis

  Winning, Goal, Guy

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If your kids remember anything, it's the fact that you were there. You're gonna fail every day, you're gonna make mistakes, you're gonna do things wrong, but as long as you're there, they remember that. And I see that. Our kids are so young, but they know that we're at every basketball game. We take them with us to places, we engage them. It's not helicopter parenting we just keep them around us. It's that bond. If you lose that it's hard to get it back. I think by showing up, kids, they're always connected to you.

  Raine Maida

  Mistake, Kids, Thinking

  "Raine Maida On Raising Three Boys". Interview With Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results of their decisions does not let us understand the process that they used to make the choice in the first place. A good analogy is sports. If you wanted to know how well a person plays basketball, for example, you could look at statistics like shooting percentage or blocked shots. But, this is just an historical account of how well the individual played in the past - the numbers do not tell us much about how that individual plays basketball now.

  Justin Menkes

  Sports, Past, Choices

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I played basketball and soccer but they are very different games, obviously. However, playing any kind of sport always helps you develop physically.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Soccer, Sports, Different

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It's cool to challenge myself to learn new things as opposed to going to play basketball in the park for millionth time.

  Steve Nash

  Challenges

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.

  Richard H. Steckel

  Sports, Football

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

  Tony Dungy

  Friday, Teacher, Dad

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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

  Country, Athlete, Player

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Growing Up, Reality, Men

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Being on the Reebok brand for eight years now, I understand where their focus is and who they cater their on-court and off-court shoes towards. Right now, it's basically the movement. There's a new retro- it's in style, it's hot and again it's all about comfort. Comfort for me is everything. I've played many and many of basketball games and so now when I'm off the court, I still want to put something on that's comfortable but still be able to have the style of a basketball-type shoe.

  Jason Terry

  Focus, Style, Comfort

  Source: uproxx.com

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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

  Player, People, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Mother, Pay, Adults

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• OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Athlete, Doubt

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• I can't palm a basketball.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Inspirational, Palms, I Can

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

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• You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Rapper, White

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• I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

  Charles Barkley

  Sports, Smell, Bags

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• See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

  Charles Barkley

  Inspirational, Dream, People

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