Basketball Player Quotes - Page 9

• When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Basketball, Baseball, Player

  Source: www.afb.org

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• Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Basketball, Team, Player

  "Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, School, Kids

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say. I'm not like this perfect, buttoned-up, suit-and-tie guy.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Player, Ties

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what I'm about.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Player, People

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I'm going to be real as hell and show you who I am, because I want the kids to see who I really am and the basketball players to see who I really am, and that's all that matters to me.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Real, Kids

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teacher, Player

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Basketball, School, Marine

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.

  Shawn Marion

  Basketball, Real, Player

  Source: www.nba.com

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• In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.

  Arundhati Roy

  Basketball, Successful, Player

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I first came in the NBA League you were slotted into a position and you did what you were slotted to do and there wasn't much room to expand your role. Today's game with the offensive schemes and the defensive schemes, it really allows to have a lot more creativity as a basketball player.

  Shane Battier

  Basketball, Creativity, Player

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Basketball, Player

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• I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Grateful, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?"

  Iman Shumpert

  Basketball, Player, Jeans

  Source: wwd.com

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• The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Games

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

  Boi-1da

  Basketball, Player, Pockets

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren't right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they're valued-because if you show them value, they're going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players.

  Sheila Johnson

  Basketball, Team, Player

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• [When] I was young and I listened to everything - I took everything to heart. I didn't really realize how much people want to talk badly about you when you're down, or kick you when you're down. As basketball players, people think everybody's ultra-confident. But that's not the case.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Heart, Player

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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• I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

  John Amaechi

  Basketball, Home, Player

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

  Bill Goldberg

  Basketball, Jobs, Athlete

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players, is for me I really rely on my routine every single day when I get ready for games and how I prepare.

  Stephen Curry

  Basketball, Golf, Player

  Source: wearegolf.org

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• When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivation

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• There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Believe, Player

  "For the Love of the Game: My Story". Book by Michael Jordan, www.slate.com. 1998.

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