Nba Quotes - Page 23

• You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Player, Needs

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• There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, People, Better Off

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Loss, Teammate

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• Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Worry, Being The Best

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• The best teams play for each other, not with each other

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Long, Attention

  Charles Barkley, Roy S. Johnson (1993). “Outrageous!”

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• I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Upset, May, Limits

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• The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked....Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  College, Years, Long

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• Jeremy, Perry, Andre, Steve and Reggie, Grant, You guys make me so much better without you even knowing man. 'Cause I know I set the example for y'all. I know there's days where I have my bad days, And I say some words I'm not supposed to say sometimes, But when I need an extra push, You guys are there man. And I appreciate that. I appreciate that because I'm not always the best leader, I'm not always the best player, I don't always shoot the best in the games, But, Our little handshakes that we do before the game, That gets me going.

  Kevin Durant

  Bad Day, Player, Men

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• I think the new ball is terrible. It's the worst decision some expert, whoever did it, made. It's terrible. It's like touching an exotic dancer and then going and touching a plastic blow-up doll. You know, it feels different.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Blow, Thinking, Dancer

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• Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Newark, Referee

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• I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fear

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• I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Sports, People, Firsts

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 23, 2004.

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• You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Guy, Stronger, Littles

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• Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker... I don't know why I'm crying so much man... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you.

  Kevin Durant

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Thinking, Two

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• When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Kids, Bird

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• There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Dirty, Two, Dukes

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• I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Kids, Long

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• I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

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• I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Thinking, Guy

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• I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Mom, Home

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• I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

  Stephen Curry

  Christian, Opportunity, Games

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• Tell them it was a foul.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Foul, Referee

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• You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Fighting, Men, Guy

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