Nba Quotes - Page 11

• I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

  Frank Layden

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Nba Championships, Philadelphia

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• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, True Joy, True Life

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• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  Candace Parker

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.

  Michael Jordan

  Wrestling, Games, Fundamentals

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

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• But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Dog

  "Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant".

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• Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Running

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• I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Wrestling

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• I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

  Coby Bell

  Basketball, Watches, Playoffs

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• Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

  Channing Tatum

  Workout, Athlete, Nfl

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• I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

  Mark Cuban

  Funny, Stupid, People

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• The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

  Marv Albert

  Games, Portland, Chicago

  Marv Albert (1993). “I'd Love to But I Have a Game: 27 Years Without a Life”, Doubleday Books

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• I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body.
  I'm not an NBA player anymore.
  At my age, very few people can handle it.

  Jerry Stiller

  Player, People, Age

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• A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves

  K. C. Jones

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• You don't go through life, you grow through life

  Kevin Ollie

  Basketball, Grows

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• I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'

  Blake Griffin

  Games, Play, Guy

  "Blake Griffin is Not a Fan of the New Flopping Rule" by Angel Diaz, www.complex.com. October 4, 2012.

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  The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Games, Play

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.

  Kobe Bryant

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• Heart is what separates the good from the great.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Heart, Gymnastics

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• Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Mean, Skills

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• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  Pat Summerall

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Inspirational, Basketball, Hero

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• You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

  Lawrence Frank

  Basketball, Heart, Player

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• Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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