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Even when I'm old and gray, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
Michael Jordan
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
Dr James Naismith (creator of basketball)
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
George Raveling
Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.
Doc Rivers
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
Jerry Tarkanian
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
Dr James Naismith (creator of basketball)
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop (in "Annie Hall")
Woody Allen
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...
Charles Barkley
The backboard is your friend.
Basketball doesn't build character. It reveals it.
If you think small things don't matter, think of the last game you lost by one point.
It is not how big you are, it is how big you play.
In our court there are no objections...Only rejections! Block it!
On any given night, anyone can be anyone.
The harder you fall down, the higher you will bounce back up
The hoop is open, the net is hot! Make that shot!
My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey, not the one on the back
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take! Shoot the hoop!
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
People say I enjoy being famous. I don't. But what choice do I have?
Charles Barkley
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me,
they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it!
Charles Barkley (In a commercial for basketball shoes)
Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative
Dan Frisby
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson
"I learned to give him the ball"....
(Magic Johnson's answer when he was asked about what he learned about the game of basketball by playing with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
Tom Tolbert
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