Nba Quotes - Page 12

• [The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

  Jerry West

  Basketball, People, League

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• We are unselfish and we trust each other

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Unselfish

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• You've got to stay ready, especially around here. That's what we preach, you'll get your opportunity whether it comes at the beginning or in the middle or in the end whenever it may be. When your time comes, you need to be ready to go because you're going to earn your minutes

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Opportunity, May

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• For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

  Ron Wyden

  Dream, Believe, Long

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• It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Play, Luxury

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• The team with the most talent usually wins.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

  Jay Bilas

  Motivational, Basketball, Work

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• All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

  Chandler Parsons

  Hard Times, Giving, Guy

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• I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up. And it felt like a box. It felt like there was no getting out.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Growing Up

  "Behind the best moments of Kevin Durant’s MVP speech" by Jonathan Lehman, nypost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.

  Kevin Durant

  Dream, Kids, Home

  Kevin Durant's MVP speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Giving, Balls

  "LeBron James hits insane buzzer-beater to tie series with Chicago Bulls" by Scott Davis, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2015.

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• I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Games, Ability

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• I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Special, Talent

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• I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Vacation, Impossible

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• Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Agents, Said

  Shaquille O'Neal (2014). “Shaq Talks Back”, p.316, St. Martin's Press

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• He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Dominant, Ifs

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• Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Trying

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• How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Boys

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• The Spurs are a great WNBA team.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Spurs

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• I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Order, Thousand

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• We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• I'm going to be looking to get out like Randy Moss and Terrell Owens.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Moss, Randy

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• First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. It let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people, and I realize that.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Mvp, Order

  "Durant's Emotional MVP Acceptance Speech: 'I'd Like to Thank God for Changing My Life'" by Eric Corpus, www.christianpost.com. May 7, 2014.

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• There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Stupid, Answers, Offense

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• I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Play, Might

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