Basketball Quotes - Page 6

• My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

  Steve Nash

  Reading, Home, Phones

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• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  Yao Ming

  Ideas, Fortune Cookie, Cookies

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

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• I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

  Steve Nash

  Adversity, Gone, Classic

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• I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

  Steve Nash

  Motivational, Believe, Thinking

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• One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

  Julius Erving

  Commitment, Buying, Operations

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.

  Steve Nash

  Reality, Play, Challenges

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• If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

  Julius Erving

  Nba, Games, Competition

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Teenage, Thinking

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

  Julius Erving

  Team, Wings, Role Models

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Being Strong, Want, Chamberlain

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• I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Believe, People

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
  Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  People, Wish, Trying

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• When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.

  Al McGuire

  Winning, Nuts, Eccentric

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• One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

  Julius Erving

  Sports, Mind, Want

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

  Bobby Knight

  Practice, Preparation, Enjoyable

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Sports, Mistake

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• When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

  George Raveling

  Football, Running, Team

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• I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Dog, Nba

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• I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

  Larry Bird

  Ears, Court, Situation

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Nba

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• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Motivational Sports, Courage, Ucla

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

  Ed Macauley

  Life, Business, Giving

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• How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Dream, Thinking

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

  Norm Sloan

  Funny, Hate, Air

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• I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

  Dave Barry

  Past, Eight, Years

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