Nba Quotes - Page 8

• Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Thinking, Years

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• I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...

  Greg Oden

  Knows

  "Teaching Greg Oden How to Be a Benchwarmer". Interview with Mark Titus, grantland.com. May 8, 2014.

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• I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.

  Eric Snow

  Team, Blessed, Opportunity

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• What I find fascinating … you have to give David Stern and the NBA a lot of credit … ESPN pays the league, and then the league tells them what to do. It’s more ESPN’s problem. You gotta have no balls whatsoever to pay someone hundreds of millions of dollars and let them run your business.

  Stan Van Gundy

  Running, League, Giving

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• Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Optimistic, Thinking

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• Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Journey

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• Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

  Jeremy Lin

  Hurt, Ethnicity, Play

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

  Nate Robinson

  Cheer, College, Games

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• I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

  Nate Robinson

  Soccer, Player, Games

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• No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

  Jim Trelease

  Basketball, Education, Children

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• Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.

  Brandon Jennings

  Dream, Shoes, Littles

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, Mistake, Guy

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• Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

  Eric Liu

  Sports, Athlete, Careers

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• My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

  Dante Hall

  Team, Eye, College

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• Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.

  Jason Collins

  Basketball, Cousin, Brother

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.

  Jason Collins

  Gay, Years, Black

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now". www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

  Stu Jackson

  Technology, Player, Games

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• A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

  Josh Howard

  Mistake, Team, Made

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• The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

  G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.

  Today, Beats, Checks

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• The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

  Bill Simmons

  Player, Nhl, Different

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• I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
  When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

  Doc Rivers

  Team, Together, Tests

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• I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

  Don Nelson

  Years, Guy, World

  "Nelson: 'Luckiest guy in the world'". Interview with Marc Stein, www.espn.com. September 6, 2012.

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• You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

  Dwight Howard

  School, Fire, Thrown

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• Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Diversity, Would Be, Politics

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• Im the best point guard in the NBA.

  Stephon Marbury

  Point Guard

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