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Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions
It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.
Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.
Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.
I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.
I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.
I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.
Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.
You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive
I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.
First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby.
Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.
I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.
I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning
I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
I don't have to shoot from more than two feet. I'm top 50. I've got 23,000 from where I shoot.
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.
I dribble rhymes like basketball... People call me 'E.T.' What's that, Shaq man? 'Extra Tall.'
He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.
Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown.
I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.
The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.
Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.