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The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.
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My first love was basketball.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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My life is bigger than basketball.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
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I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
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Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.
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I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
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My focus is basketball, and that's it.
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People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.
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I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordanthis is like spring break in the ghetto.
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I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.
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Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points.
Or as Hillary Clinton would say, Too close to call.
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I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
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Basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence.
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
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My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
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It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.
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I can shoot a basket pretty well.
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I am, first of all, a basketball player. I've done this for so very long ... For me, it's been essential to be successful on the court.
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Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
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I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
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Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.
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Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.
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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
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I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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Every memory I have from when I was a kid involves basketball.
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Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.
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I am privileged to have played basketball.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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I realize that although I'd like to make films as a career after I'm done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself physically, mentally and emotionally.
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After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
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Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots
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You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.
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I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.
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There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down those just beneath them." 121

When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
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Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
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Im not an Athlete, Im a ballplayer
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Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
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I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.
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No matter what ... ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.
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I don't know much about sports.
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I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.
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Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.
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Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.
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During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.
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I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.
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I like women's basketball.
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The love of fame puts spurs to the mind
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A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.
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Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.
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I always wanted to be a basketball player.
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Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.
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Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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I caught an elbow playing basketball
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Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.
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I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
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Once I step on the court in San Antonio, I feel the support in the air.
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Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.
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I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.
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It's hard to play basketball when nothing is inside of you.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
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I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.
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Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
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Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.
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The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
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I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history
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Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.
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My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
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The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
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I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
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Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.
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The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.
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The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.
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The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.
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I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.
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Basketball is what I do, it's not who I am.
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The business always gets in the way of basketball.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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When I was small, playing NBA Live, that's how I knew everyone in the NBA. That's how I learned about the players.
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The Spurs are a great WNBA team.
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The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.
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America may be entering it's Michael Jordan on the Wizards period.
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Im the best point guard in the NBA.
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My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.