Nba Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Emphasize small goals when you have a team that isn’t going to win a lot of games

  Mike Dunlap

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Creativity, Winning

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.10, Penguin

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• The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

  Bill Simmons

  Player, Nhl, Different

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• I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
  When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

  Doc Rivers

  Team, Together, Tests

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• Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS.

  Marvin Barnes

  Fabulous

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• Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Diversity, Would Be, Politics

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• Im the best point guard in the NBA.

  Stephon Marbury

  Point Guard

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• No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Years, Half

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• The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Basketball, Business, Association

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• I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

  Andrew Bogut

  Strong, Stress, Careers

  "Andrew Bogut Calls Those Who Can’t Understand His Poor Injury Luck ‘Pretty Uneducated’". sports.yahoo.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

  Dwight Howard

  Kids, Blessing

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• You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

  Dwight Howard

  School, Fire, Thrown

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• I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

  Don Nelson

  Years, Guy, World

  "Nelson: 'Luckiest guy in the world'". Interview with Marc Stein, www.espn.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Today, Beats, Checks

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• Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  Adam Silver

  Basketball, Sports, Integrity

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• We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

  Adam Silver

  Victory, Compromise, Bargaining

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• You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.

  Kevin Durant

  Cheer, Crazy, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner

  Ted Leonsis

  Owners

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• I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.

  Rico Love

  Successful, Years, Games

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• I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

  Stu Jackson

  Technology, Player, Games

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