Basketball Quotes - Page 34

• Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Athlete, Black, Assumption

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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• It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

  Rafael Nadal

  Eye, Player, Games

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.

  Dwight Howard

  Lying, Perception, Care

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.

  Dwight Howard

  Joy, Sides, Good Things

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's quite extraordinary.

  Phil Collins

  Tattoo, Soccer, Awkward

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Basketball's a game of mistakes.

  Gregg Popovich

  Mistake, Games

  Source: newsok.com

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• It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

  Paul Beatty

  Summer, Mean, Player

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.

  Paul Beatty

  Teacher, Attitude, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.

  Iman Shumpert

  Growing Up, Winter, Years

  Source: wwd.com

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• To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Practice, Skills

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• I'm not into no basketball beef.

  Kevin Durant

  Beef

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.

  Kobe Bryant

  Dad, Love You, Winning

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it.

  Kevin Durant

  Media, Play, Way

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Ties, Perfect

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.

  George Carlin

  Brother, New York, Couple

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

  Jim Courier

  Running, Athlete, Successful

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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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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• Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Zero, School, Cutting

  Source: www.colorlines.com

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• College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.

  Ashley Graham

  College, Challenges, Court

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• 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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• Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

  Larry Bird

  Sports, Winning, Nba

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• I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Inspirational, Sports, Guy

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Team, Games

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• I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

  Heidi Klum

  Fun, Thinking, Games

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• But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Eye, Player, Thinking

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