Nba Quotes - Page 6

• I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

  Tom Tolbert

  Funny, Basketball, Football

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• Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Play

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• It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Funny, Basketball, Work Out

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• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Growing Up, Play

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

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• I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

  Terrell Owens

  Inspirational, Basketball, House

  Interview with Victor Kelly, ca.ign.com. July 8, 2004.

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• I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

  Moses Malone

  Basketball, Team, Missing

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• I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Men, Thinking

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• Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Basketball, Air

  "Classic NBA Quotes: Michael Jordan". NBA Encyclopedia, www.nba.com.

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• Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Important

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• Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

  Jerry West

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Competition, Standards

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• Coaches win practices, players win games

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me

  Jerry Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Needs

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• Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

  Charles Shackleford

  Funny, Basketball, Sports

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• When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

  Doug Collins

  Basketball, Eye, Looks

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• Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

  Bill Walton

  People, Bills

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• And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here. We went from apartment to apartment by ourselves. One of the best memories I had was when we moved into our first apartment, no bed, no furniture and we just sat in the living room and just hugged each other. We thought we made it.

  Kevin Durant

  Mom, Brother, Memories

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

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• I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy.

  Kyrie Irving

  Nba Championships, Healthy, Felt

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• I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

  Kevin Durant

  Growing Up, Player, Trying

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.

  LeBron James

  Simple, Player, World

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 14". Interview, www.nba.com. June 15, 2015.

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• The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Practice

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• In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Teamwork, Believe

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• People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Thinking, People

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• I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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