Quotes about basketball
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In Kentucky, it's everything. Our homecoming is during basketball season. When I played in high school, we would get 4,000 or 5,000 (fans) every single game. We had to play in a downtown arena. We couldn't play in our own high-school gym.
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In my first year, we were 3-16, but we went 8-12 this season, so we won nearly three times as many games in a very tough basketball region. G. H. Hardy
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In my estimation, he is truly one of the finest young basketball coaches around at this point in time. Nolan Richardson
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In all honesty, I don't have any regrets about the game. Especially, when the boys didn't give up. They were fighting right until the end. This was a great high school basketball game.
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I'm never satisfied, but that was one fine basketball game from the Mercy side. We did all the little things we needed to do.
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I'm not a role model, ... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids. Charles Barkley
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I know they're going to be great kids because their coaches nominated them. I've got the greatest seat in the house. I'm going to watch them play and hopefully they'll have fun. That's what it's all about. We want them to enjoy this because it's maybe the last time they get the chance to play basketball in East Texas. Brian Keith
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I know what inspiring basketball is. When we're dead in the water and we're not playing the way we're capable of, I'm going to say that. But tonight we were very inspiring.
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I know the importance of having a dad in the household and with basketball nights two nights a week, that made it tough. It's hard to be home at night when you're coaching three different sports during the school year. There's a lot of time and commitment in coaching three sports.
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I know the final score, the margin up there, was probably 16 or 18, but it was a closer basketball game than that. They played us very well at their place a year ago. They were young. They have those players back.
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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
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I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player. Josh Howard
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I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home. Josh Hutcherson
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If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him. John C. Maxwell
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
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Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best. Harvey Mackay
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit? George Archer
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The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be. Geno Auriemma
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I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.
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Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.
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So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games
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Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls. Suresh Raina
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One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players. Sonny Vaccaro
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I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.
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Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions. Steve Kerr
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I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.
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Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball.
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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
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I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
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Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. Stephen Graham Jones
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The last two games, the one in Detroit, late in that game and this game is really the most competitive that we've been with a very, very good basketball team. Bernie Bickerstaff
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The last seven, eight games, Ryan is playing the best basketball of his career. Ben Howland
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The likelihood of finding any high school basketball team with the defensive players to match with the three of them is highly unlikely. I'd like to see the team that can match up with them and still have the fourth and fifth guy to stop Landon and Lawrence.