Basketball Quotes - Page 36

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

  Josh Hopkins

  Inspirational, Kentucky, Kicks

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• You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

  LeBron James

  Games, Very Good, Happens

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• I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Winning, Games

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• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspirational, Laughing, Feel Good

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

  Magic Johnson

  Crazy, Guy, Magic

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

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• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, People, Honest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

  Magic Johnson

  Talking, People, Guy

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

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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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• If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Son, Play

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• I don't intend to retire.

  Bobby Knight

  Retiring

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• And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Coaching

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• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Past, College

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• As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Real, Thinking

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• Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, School, Years

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• My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

  Talib Kweli

  Inspirational, Memories, Boys

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• Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

  Denis Leary

  Grew Up, Used, Court

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• I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

  Denis Leary

  School, Hockey, Player

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• I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

  Jeremy Lin

  Talking, Attention, Spotlight

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