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Basketball
«Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a professional organization. The Hornets were just -- I don't know what the hell it was. There is no explaining for them.»
«I can't coach, but it's ok, it's my players fault, they're just not producing. I can't get on the court for them, they have to get it done, there's nothing that I can do for them. Coaching is done in practice. Plays just don't matter when it comes to game time if your players cannot complete them and I can ot draw them up. Why should a team trust in me when I cannot coach?»
Author: John Swickrath
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Basketball
«[On the Spurs] It was like they?ve been playing all season. They have a tough defense, they dig inside. They are just a tough defensive team. They?ve got some big guys inside and they do a good job, especially at home.»
Author: Pau Gasol
(Basketball Player)
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Basketball
| Keywords:
defensive team, dig, inside job, spurs, tough guy
«Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.»
«I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.»
Author: Shaquille O'Neal
(Actor, Basketball Player, Rapper)
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Basketball,
Sports
| Keywords:
high-priced, luckily, NBA, priced
«Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one.»
Author: Ted Solotaroff
| About:
Basketball
| Keywords:
basket, basketball team, crowded, fall into, lay up, One on One, perfunctory, shooting
«I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that.»
«If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.»
«If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.»
Author: Charles Barkley
(Basketball Player)
| About:
Basketball,
Money
| Keywords:
dunk, dunked, earning
«Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. Well we're the kryptonite, and we're gonna win.»
Author: Jim Larranaga
| About:
Basketball