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“I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.”

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Author:Bo Jackson

“You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.”

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Author:LeBron James

“I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.”

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Author:LeBron James

“The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it takes.”

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Author:Dolph Schayes

“The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.”

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Author:Nikki Blonsky

“We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk.”

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Author:Deborah King

“The great thing about [Michael] Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of times like a lot of the basketball players, not to be getting on basketball, but, with a lot of the basketball players you might have one superstar on the team, and they're not willing to play up to par with the way he is, so they don't make it. But then you have some celebrities on the basketball team, and they don't know how to get along with each other!”

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Author:Ginuwine

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

“Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.”

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Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.”

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Author:Nate Oats

“The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.”

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Author:Paul Beatty

“I play basketball. I can't control the media, the way I play. I can't control all of it.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“If I asked you something about basketball and you don't really know about basketball and you try to talk it and fake it, I'm going to be able to tell. It's the same way about music; you have to be real.”

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Author:Chamillionaire

“You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.”

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Author:Jim Courier

“Back when I played, basketball was all about fundamentals, about hustling, getting those loose balls, all those rebounds under the basket. That equals up to 12, 14, 16 points. You can lose a game with that much. It's different watching basketball now. People don't play the same way. It doesn't matter if you score, if you can't stop the other team from scoring. Our coach used to kick our ass if we didn't. I was told if you saw more of the other team color under the basket than your own team color, you ain't doing your job. Everybody should be under the board, trying to get that ball.”

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Author:Leslie Jones

“Hip-hop culture itself has completely consumed everything involved in entertainment. When you think about basketball like the way those guys dress; I don't know if you notice but people care about how you dress these days.”

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Author:Ryan Montgomery

“Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.”

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Author:Ryan Montgomery

“The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy is definitely a smart guy, knows what he's doing. He's a basketball genius. So to downplay that and disrespect that, I thought it was stereotyping him way too much.”

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Author:Mychal Thompson

“My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.”

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Author:Jeremy Lin

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”

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Book:Basketball: Its Origin and Development

Source: Basketball: Its Origin and Development

“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.”

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Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.”

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Author:Rick Pitino

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.”

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Book:The winner within: a life plan for team players

Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players

“I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.”

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Author:Dennis Rodman

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.”

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Book:Drive: The Story of My Life

Source: Drive: The Story of My Life

“The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.”

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Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.”

Source: Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing

“I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.”

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Author:Vince Carter

“I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.”

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Book:Kareem

Source: Kareem

“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”

Source: Winner Within Success

“My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.”

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Author:Bear Bryant

“But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.”

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Book:Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

Source: Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

“I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.”

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Book:Reach for the Summit

Source: Reach for the Summit

“Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.”

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Author:Dick Bennett

“Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.”

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Author:Phil Jackson

“A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

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