Nba Quotes - Page 7

• In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Order, Achieve

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• The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

  Lamar Odom

  Games, League, Things I Love

  FaceBook post by Lamar Odom from Nov 30, 2011

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• Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.

  Stan Van Gundy

  Team, Successful, College

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• Offense is not equal opportunity

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Opportunity, Equal

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• I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Dad, Careers

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• I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Dream, Thinking, Careers

  "Knicks remain faves with Melo set to dive in to free-agency". Interview with Marc Berman, nypost.com. June 28, 2014.

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• I never envisioned myself playing for the U.S. Olympic team -- growing up, I never envisioned playing in the NBA, to be real with you. I never envisioned that type of stuff. So this is like a dream that I never had come true. It's like I'm a part of what's really going on. It's still very hard for me to believe that I am really going to be a part of the biggest thing in the whole entire world.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Dream, Growing Up, Team

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• If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Games

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

  Magic Johnson

  College, People, Transition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Hey, Alive

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• One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nice, Games

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• These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Eye, Fighting

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• That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Garden

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• Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

  Karl Malone

  Inspirational, Basketball, Coaches

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• The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

  Andrew Bogut

  Smart, Team, Player

  "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.

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• The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

  Andrew Bogut

  Country, Attitude, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, True Joy, True Life

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• Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

  Julius Erving

  Makeup, Turns, Turn-on

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• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  Candace Parker

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.

  Michael Jordan

  Wrestling, Games, Fundamentals

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1907, Triumph Books

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• If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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• The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Athlete, Winning

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• It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Mistake, Humility

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