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I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem
You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession
I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can
Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.
I grew up in Brixton as a young teenager playing basketball for the Brixton Topcats, which marked the beginning of my career.
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
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.
I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.
I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
I am really competitive. I take my basketball very seriously, even though I'm not really that good. I take it very seriously.
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots
I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'
There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.
I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork...Determination...I gotta keep pushing myself.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.
Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots