Nba Quotes - Page 28

• Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Selfish

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.75, RosettaBooks

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• I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Dream, Stars

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• The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Simple

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• How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Keys, Presidential

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• The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, People

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• The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Brother, Stars

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• He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

  Kobe Bryant

  Badass, Pay, Point Guard

  "Kobe, Smush Parker go at it again". www.espn.com. October 13, 2012.

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• I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score

  Ricky Davis

  Funny, Basketball, Helping

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• Name 12 players better than me.

  Jalen Rose

  Funny, Basketball, Player

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• We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

  Manu Ginobili

  Basketball, Growing, Stage

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• I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If I'm not shooting well, I'll try to be an asset in other ways-like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle.

  Rick Barry

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Team, Men

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• I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Moving, Hands

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• If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Sports, Play

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• I never think about missing a free throw. All that goes through my mind when I'm at the line is seeing the ball go through the bottom of the net.

  Brad Daugherty

  Basketball, Thinking, Missing

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• If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.

  John Havlicek

  Basketball, Believe, Mirrors

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• I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

  Bobby Knight

  Leadership, Basketball, Practice

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• A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Volleyball

  Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola (2006). “Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Heart, Warrior

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

  David Robinson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Confidence

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• It's the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Home, Games

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• I know what I would do if I were coach. I'd determine our strengths and weaknesses and utilize them. And it's pretty clear what our strength is.

  Michael Jordan

  Funny, Weakness, Clear

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• This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.

  Kevin Garnett

  Funny, Couple, War

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• If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sticks, Booty, Ouch

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• When I retire, I'm going after his job. If I don't make sheriff, I'm going after his job. He's not that good. You can quote me on that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Jobs, Sheriffs, Retiring

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