Nba Quotes - Page 33

• I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Lying

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievememnt Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Winning

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• I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Winning

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• People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, People

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• Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Basketball, Men

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• Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Giving

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• There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Play, One Thing

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• Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Important, Troops

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• Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Dream, Sportsmanship

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• You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

  Paul Westphal

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

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• The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

  Grant Hill

  Basketball, College, Accomplishment

  "FPM Interview: Grant Hill talks about his new doc on Olympic coach". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Choices, Determined

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• True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Motivation, Play

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• Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Play, Magic

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• I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

  Tom Izzo

  Basketball, Taken, Guy

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• Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that

  Tom Izzo

  Basketball, Hate, Today's Society

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• I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Bridges, Eras

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• It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Organization, Ambassadors, Easy

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• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Helping, Chance, Should

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• When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Basketball, Games, Achievement

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Speech

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Phones, Phone Calls, Novelists

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• Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Games, Kevin

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• I've got extra motivation that I won't talk about right now.

  LeBron James

  Motivation, Extras, Right Now

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