Quotes about basketball
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Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge. Dean Smith
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I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.
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Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
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After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics. Dikembe Mutombo
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I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk. Barry Goldwater
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. Barbara Bush
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In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too. Antonio Gates
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Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.
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We're playing our best basketball all year and we're a really tough team. You can't stop us. Al Horford
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We've been in close games and I think we are 6-1 in them and that is the difference in the two basketball teams. Our kids know how to finish games. Ron Hunter
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We really focused on controlling the basketball and making them work on defense. To make the separation we had to do the grunt work.
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We're a better basketball team than we were at the start of the season. But we were a pretty good team when we started the season.
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We're a basketball team that understands it limitations. We understand that we don't have all the cards to play that many of the other teams have. At the same time, we're a basketball team that has some very good cards to play. Shuffling those cards and dealing them in the right manner - playing with each other and playing with each others' strengths - has in fact become our team's strength.
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We're a much better basketball team when she stays on the floor, obviously. She's just so well-rounded at both ends of the floor. I think she's one of the top players in the conference. It's exciting to see her numbers reflect that.
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We have had a lot of those kinds of games, but I thought we played good basketball. We stayed under control, played good defense and didn't get rattled.
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The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self. Edward Abbey
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Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy. Earl Nightingale
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I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems... Dirk Nowitzki
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I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.
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Do we play hard? Yeah, we play hard. There are situations where they hit us. That's the way basketball is. Flip Saunders
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Credit to Jackson -- those were two tired basketball teams. We've never missed that many shots before, and we played as hard as we could.
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Credit this victory to some big hearts and a very determined group. We knew on this swing down here that we hadn't played good basketball in several games. We just committed ourselves to play as well as we could and the most important thing is wins and we accomplished that.
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Credit Minot. They came here to compete and won the basketball game. I felt they wanted it more than we did. We showed a little life. Then, all of a sudden, we backtracked.
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Elton has always played consistently, but now we're winning basketball games and people are finally taking notice. Sam Cassell
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Elmwood is a very good basketball team. We will need one of our best efforts to defeat them.
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Early, we got caught up in the emotion. Then, they got on a roll. This was a great basketball game. If I had paid to get into this game, it would have been worth double the price of admission.
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During basketball, people get elbowed. I get elbowed in practice. It was nothing intentional. It's all in coach's hands. I guess they might appeal. Jeff Adrien
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Duquesne played with a lot of energy and hustle. We didn't match that energy in the first half. But the game is 40 minutes long. I thought our size and strength eventually would take care of that. If Duquesne continues to play like that they'll start to win some basketball games. They've got a feel of how they want to play. B. F. Skinner
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Duncan deserves everything he gets, as far as I'm concerned. It's frustrating guarding Tim Duncan even if they think he's not getting the calls. He's a hell of a basketball player. Doc Rivers
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Duke is the premier basketball program in the nation. For us, this is a great opportunity, and to me, it is an honor to go to Duke and play. Playing Duke will be a great experience for our kids and will certainly prepare us for the wars we are going to have to play in the Big Ten. Kelvin Sampson
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Each year Endicott basketball has taken steps forward and becomes more competitive. And, we will continue to do so. This program is headed in the same direction it has been headed since its first men?s season in 1994-1995 ? up.
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Erika made a commitment to succeed academically. A lot of coaches questioned if she would do that. Kids who struggle academically have more choices to make, like if they are going to go to tutoring and make a commitment in the classroom. She isn't one of those kids who could have just concentrated on basketball and made it.
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Eric did a lot of good things, but you have to credit his teammates for finding him underneath the basket. I thought we played good team basketball from start to finish for the third straight game.