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«If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.»
«I do envision championship basketball and when you talk about championship basketball, you talk about a good defensive team, you talk about a good offensive team and you talk about a team that really has its act together once they step on the floor. Our goal is to dominate the east and we must continue to dominate the east so that we can have another return to the NBA Finals. And I think mentally we have to become a tougher basketball team. I think mental toughness is going to be the thing that makes us champions.»
Author: Isiah Thomas
(Basketball Player, Coach)
| Keywords:
basketball, basketball team, Champions, championship, championships, defensive team, dominate, East, envision, envisioned, envisioning, finals, floor, NBA, offensive, Return to, step on, The Championship, The East, tougher, toughness
«Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.»
Author: John Leonard
| About:
Baseball,
Sports
| Keywords:
basketball, cumulative, grenade, grenades, hand grenade, hand grenades, hockey, hockey game, machine gun, tension
«I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.»
Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(Basketball Player)
| About:
Needs
| Keywords:
basketball, basketball court, court, preachy, spending, The Library
«Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.»
«Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.»
Author: Tiger Woods
(Golfer)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
basketball, dressed, dress whites, hockey, pimp, pimped, pimping, pimps
«Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.»
Author: Chris Rock
| About:
African American,
Sports
| Keywords:
basketball, black people, dominate, heated, hockey, in the United States, population, rink, shit, sports, Take That, tennis
«I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.»
Author: John Wooden
| Keywords:
aimless, basketball, circles, comparison, comparisons, in circles, savior, Small circle, wins
«Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.»
«It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.»
Author: John Wooden
| Keywords:
basketball