Nba Quotes - Page 27

• The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

  Carmelo Anthony

  White, Clothes, World

  "Carmelo Anthony Does Not Wear Bowties: Q&A". Interview with Jordan Peter Hickey, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2009.

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• It's always been my dream to play in the NBA.

  Paul Pierce

  Dream, Play

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• Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Sex, Fifty

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• On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

  Bill Russell

  Funny, Basketball, Sex

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• Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Racist, Yang

  "Inmate IDs, NBA, Homophobia, Snowballs". www.foxnews.com. January 20, 2003.

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• I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

  Chris Paul

  Football, Games, Nfl

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 3, 2005.

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• When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

  Derrick Rose

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• I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.

  LeBron James

  Nba Championships, Goal, Cleveland

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• I spoil a lot of people with my play.

  LeBron James

  Play, People, Spoil

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• This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to my USA Basketball teammates to be totally invested in the experience. After going through training camp with USAB, I realized I could not fulfill my responsibilities to the team from both a time and energy standpoint. I need to take a step back and take some time away, both mentally and physically in order to prepare for the upcoming NBA season. I will be rooting for USAB and look forward to future opportunities with them.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Country, Team

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• In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

  LeBron James

  Beach, Fall, Miami Heat

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• I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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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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• I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Basketball, Volleyball

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• When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Sometimes

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• There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  College, Player, Games

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

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• If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Running, Team

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Winning, Awards, People

  "Has The Academy Awards Turned A Page On #OscarsSoWhite?". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2017.

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• Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Kids, Helping

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  I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, People, Laughing

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• It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Men, Advice

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• I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.

  Iman Shumpert

  Thinking, Guy, Mind

  Source: wwd.com

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• I have to give credit to the NBA, because they've done an unbelievable job of taking our game global and putting us in a position to be able to come here and other places in the world and see how big the game of basketball is. If you have never been here, you might not really understand how amazing and how big basketball is. These fans in China love the sport, and they have more players playing than we have people living in the US.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

  Source: solecollector.com

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• I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Military, Team

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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