Quotes about basketball
basketball heart years
I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40. Pete Maravich
basketball hands two
They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.
basketball dedication light
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.
basketball baseball football
I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player. Pete Rose
basketball kids icons
Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid. Macklemore
basketball daughter father
My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father. Greg Behrendt
basketball football dad
It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet. Jimmy Connors
basketball football baseball
Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
basketball mom baseball
Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
basketball growing-up player
My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was. Justin Timberlake
basketball school player
I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player. Josh Howard
basketball home play
I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home. Josh Hutcherson
basketball warfare human-nature
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
basketball memorable boston
My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
basketball athlete equality
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
basketball player years
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
basketball careers games
The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.
basketball winning play
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
basketball hard-work two
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
basketball stars hip-hop
We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.
basketball player thinking
He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.
basketball eye player
But people don't know if I can teach the game. I know I can. My experience in Oklahoma was positive. It opened my eyes to how the game is played - the interaction among players, fans and media, how all that works. You have to know about the business of the game and how the actions of players and coaches affect the business. I think I have it down now.
basketball athlete black
Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.
basketball sports yoga
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
basketball children thinking
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
basketball disappear
I'm not going to disappear.
basketball mother fifty
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
basketball spiritual political
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
basketball loyalty patriotic
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
basketball ideas people
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
basketball boys race
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
basketball transition difficult
The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
basketball cheating thinking
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.