Nba Quotes - Page 23

• Build shelter against a rainy day.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Rainy Day, Coaching

  John Wooden, Steve Jamison (2004). “My Personal Best: Life Lessons from an All-American Journey”, p.18, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Blessing, Ucla

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• Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Promise

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• Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Promise

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• Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Strong, Optimistic

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• You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Supervision

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• I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Thinking, Guy

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• Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Newark, Referee

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• You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Fighting, Men, Guy

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• Tell them it was a foul.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Foul, Referee

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• I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

  Stephen Curry

  Christian, Opportunity, Games

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• Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Giving Up

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• I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

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• Beautiful fans of Oklahoma City, I can’t say enough about you guys. All the support you give our team. The home-court advantage we have is the best I’ve ever seen. We disappoint you sometimes, but we try our best every single night to win for you guys. And we want to win a championship for you guys.

  Kevin Durant

  Beautiful, Team, Home

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Play, Humans

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• I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Cat, Jersey

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• We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Victory, Defeat

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• It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Jobs, League

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• It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

  Dick Vitale

  Player, Ncaa, Coaching

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• When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.

  Ray Allen

  Home, Effort, Champion

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• The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

  Carmelo Anthony

  White, Clothes, World

  "Carmelo Anthony Does Not Wear Bowties: Q&A". Interview with Jordan Peter Hickey, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2009.

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• I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Goal, Cleveland

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• I spoil a lot of people with my play.

  LeBron James

  Play, People, Spoil

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• If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Needs, Want

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