Nba Quotes - Page 4

• It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Over You, Groups

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• No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Team, Care

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• Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Talking, Lord

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• I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

  LeBron James

  Motivational, Basketball, Games

  The InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

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• The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Cities, Fax

  "No longer standing tall / Former Warrior center Manute Bol reduced to living in poverty" by Declan Walsh, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2001.

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• If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

  Art Rust, Jr.

  Funny, Basketball, Cocaine

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• The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Men, Defense

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• Hakeem couldn't kick your ass cause you were too close, kissing his!

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Kissing, Causes

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• Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Basketball, Team, Player

  "Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins" by Mark Hyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2011.

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• My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.

  John Starks

  Basketball, Team, Nba Finals

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• If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Making Love, Watches

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• You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Eight, Practice

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

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• The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

  Jay Bilas

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Stars, Thinking

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• I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

  Reggie Evans

  Funny, Girl, Gnarly

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• I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

  Kevin Durant

  Thinking, Looks, Logos

  "Biography/ Personal quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.

  Chris Paul

  I Can

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 03, 2005.

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• Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

  Doug Collins

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Stupid, Drug

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• Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.

  Magic Johnson

  Lying, Bird, Said

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• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Laughing

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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