Nba Quotes - Page 30

• The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Simple

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• How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Keys, Presidential

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• We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

  Manu Ginobili

  Basketball, Growing, Stage

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• The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.131, Triumph Books

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• Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Buttons

  Shaquille O'Neal (2014). “Shaq Talks Back”, p.168, St. Martin's Press

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• I'm the first player in history that doesn't want to play defense and still gets in foul trouble.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Player, Firsts, Defense

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• Nick, You know, The first guy I met when I first got to Seattle, As an eighteen year old, You took me in. You believed in me from the beginning. You knew that I had potential. And every single day I know I could look at you And know that you respect me As a man, As a player, And you gonna ride with me to the end. I thank you.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Men, Mvp

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• Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that.

  Kevin Durant

  Player, Mvp, Years

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• I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Falling In Love, Player

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

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• Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Good Week, Motivational Business

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• When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May, 1992.

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• If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Team

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• There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Team, Boys

  Bill Walton (1995). “Nothing But Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way”, Hyperion

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• Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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• The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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  My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

  Allen Iverson

  Tattoo, Basketball, Guy

  "No more practice for A.I.: Allen Iverson says goodbye to Philadelphia" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Mvp, Worry

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• Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Believe, Practice

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• I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Second Chance, Giving

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• Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, Years, Games

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Love You, Home

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• I'm going to always be a Sixer til I die.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Dies

  "Names & Faces". www.sfgate.com. October 30, 2013.

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  I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Mistake, People

  "No more practice for A.I.: Allen Iverson says goodbye to Philadelphia" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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