Funny Basketball Quotes - Page 4

• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

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• Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Originality, Clamour, Quarrels

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

  Bill Fitch

  Funny, Basketball, Fighting

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• Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ignorance, Empathy, Apathy

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• Insist upon yourself. Be original.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creating, Originality, Originals

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• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  Ogden Nash

  Basketball, Zoos, Games

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Differences, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

  Magic Johnson

  Funny, Basketball, Giving

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• There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Funny, Basketball, Mean

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• Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Basketball, Planets

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• Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Sports

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