Nba Quotes - Page 34

• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Helping, Chance, Should

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• When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Basketball, Games, Achievement

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• Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.

  David Stern

  Player, Government, Speech

  "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

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• As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Phones, Phone Calls, Novelists

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• Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Games, Kevin

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• I've got extra motivation that I won't talk about right now.

  LeBron James

  Motivation, Extras, Right Now

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• You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Rapper, White

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• Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Hot, Cold

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• They are that same group, but I've got my own rivalristic problems. Is that a word, rivalristic? I've got my own rivalristic problems in the Eastern Conference.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Groups, Problem

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• I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Trials, Calm

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• Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Technique, Anticipation

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• Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Sports, Truth

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• How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Discipline, Losing

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• You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Leader

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• Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Personality, Diction

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• I told my wife when I was rolling up, I felt like the president.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Wife, President

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• The problem with kids these days is they don't have enough fun stuff to do. When I was stationed with my family in Germany, youth basketball programs gave me something to strive to do my best at.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fun, Kids

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• Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can't afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Sea, Jersey

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• I was kind of hoping it was Anna Kournikova.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kind, Anna

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• I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Cheer, Thinking

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• The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nice, Team

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• If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Want, Ifs

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• Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Moon, Opposites

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• Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass on the floor, I wouldn't have fell. How he got on the ground, I don't know. He's clumsy. Quote me on that. I'm going to get him.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play, Chicago

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