Basketball Quotes - Page 35

• Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

  Kevin Durant

  Growing Up, Memories, Stuff

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

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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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• If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.

  Gary Dornhoefer

  Funny, Clouds, Nba

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• In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Athlete, Opportunity

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• For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Taken, Golf

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• And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

  Ashley Judd

  Kentucky, Wind, Mind

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• I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Games, Play

  "Five minutes with Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Chicago Tribune Interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 25, 2012.

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• If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Love You

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• When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

  Jason Kidd

  Jobs, Kids, Play

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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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• I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

  LeBron James

  Practice, Lockers, Rooms

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• I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.

  LeBron James

  Team, Inspiration, Leader

  Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. January 4, 2004.

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• I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.

  LeBron James

  Winning, Focus, Statistics

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• I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Player, Thinking

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Kanye West Compares Himself to Hitler". www.usmagazine.com. August 08, 2011.

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• I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

  Joss Whedon

  Mean, Games, Secret

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

  Sue Wicks

  Cheer, Attitude, Team

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• Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.

  John Wooden

  Ucla, Discipline, Preparation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.52, B&H Publishing Group

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• That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

  LeBron James

  Team, People, Athletic

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• I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

  LeBron James

  Mother, Blessed, Way

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• A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

  Tiger Woods

  Inspirational, Player, Littles

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• The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Believe, Winning

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• I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Love Is, Challenges

  Interview with some media, www.insidehoops.com. January 4, 2004.

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• Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

  LeBron James

  Jesus, Men, Guy

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• You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos

  George Carlin

  Talking, Games, White

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