Famous Basketball Quotes - Page 4

• Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Pythagorean Theorem, Perfect

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• I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

  LeBron James

  Motivational, Basketball, Nba

  The InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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  Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Opportunity, Nba

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• I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships

  Zeljko Obradovic

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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• There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  InsideHoops.com Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Home, Thinking

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

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• If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

  Elgin Baylor

  Basketball, Greatness, Jordan

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• I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Work

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• I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Wise

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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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

  Basketball, Past, Eight

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• I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

  Charles Barkley

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

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• Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Mistake, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

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• The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Weakness, Figures

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.117, Crown Business

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• I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

  Kobe Bryant

  Motivational, Basketball, Want

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• The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".

  Stewart Granger

  Basketball, Foul, Autopsy

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• Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!

  Pete Maravich

  Patience, Dream, Character

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• There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Basketball, Being Yourself, Diving

  "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• I never thought a role model should be negative.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Role Models, Negative

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• You don't have to live anybody else's story.

  Stephen Curry

  Mvp, Inspirational Basketball, Stories

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

  Bob Sundvold

  Inspirational, Basketball, Games

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  All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

  Magic Johnson

  Relationship, Basketball, Hope

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Teamwork, Thinking

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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