Nba Quotes - Page 20

• I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Rudy Tomjanovich

  Motivational, Basketball, Heart

  Rudy Tomjanovich (1997). “A Rocket at Heart: My Life and My Team”

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• I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing Im concerned about is the NBAs image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then Im all for it.

  Antonio Davis

  Player, Thinking, Rapper

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• I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Weed, New York, Team

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• Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Leader, Coaching

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• Motivating through fear may work in the short term to get people to do something, but over the long run I believe personal pride is a much greater motivator. It produces far better results that last for a much longer time.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Believe

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• The team with the most talent usually wins.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Journey

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• Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

  Jeremy Lin

  Hurt, Ethnicity, Play

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

  Nate Robinson

  Cheer, College, Games

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• I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

  Nate Robinson

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

  Jim Trelease

  Basketball, Education, Children

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• My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

  Dante Hall

  Team, Eye, College

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• Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.

  Jason Collins

  Basketball, Cousin, Brother

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, "I'm different." If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

  Jason Collins

  Sports, Team, Kids

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.

  Jason Collins

  Gay, Years, Black

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now". www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Optimistic, Thinking

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• What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.

  Stan Van Gundy

  Running, League, Giving

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• Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.

  Bud Adams

  Team, Thinking, Cities

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• I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

  John Starks

  Moving Forward, Garden, Years

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• The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Sports, Motivation, Nfl

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• I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone else

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Fighting, Guy

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• Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

  Will Smith

  Running, Nba Championships, Years

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• I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

  Greg Oden

  Knows

  "Teaching Greg Oden How to Be a Benchwarmer". Interview with Mark Titus, grantland.com. May 8, 2014.

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• I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

  Ray Allen

  Play, My Family, Situation

  "Ray Allen Says He Won’t Play This Season, Will Make Decision On Future This Summer" by Jack Winter, uproxx.com. March 04, 2015.

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• Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.

  Mark Cuban

  Doe, Making Money

  "Twitter trouble: Mark Cuban fined, Courtney Love sued - over tweets" by Mark Milian, latimesblogs.latimes.com. March 30, 2009.

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