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“In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.”

Years Hard Winning Hours Practice Four Week Ten Basketball Seasons Following Eight Coaching Each Day Nba Championship Fourteen Ucla National Championships

Author:John Wooden

“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.”

Years Together Basketball Seven Eight Lakers

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.”

Want Play Guy Basketball Eight Doing Nothing Talk To Me Lakers Don't Talk To Me

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.”

Years Play Kids Lasts Young Forever Ready Months Basketball Eight Nine Relax Nine Months Months Of The Year

Author:Ray Allen

“I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real life of an NBA player. And it's not all about I just do everything, like I'm the hardest worker, or I love to play basketball every day, I go to the gym at eight and don't leave until five. No, that's not how it is. That's not how I am.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“I always wanted to be an NBA ball player since I was eight years old. I kind of went on the road of sports and I ended up on the stage with the microphone. For me it's like a dream come full circle. I think some people do it because their agent tells them it's a good look to get some publicity. But myself, I eat, live, and breathe basketball.”

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Author:Michael Bivins

“I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.”

“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”

“You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”

Source: I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence

“And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.”

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Author:Julius Erving

“He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.”

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Author:Scottie Pippen

“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.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.”

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Author:Dave Barry