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“I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”

“I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."”

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Author:Frank Deford

“I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.”

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Author:Jess Walter

“Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.”

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Author:Dallas Clayton

“Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.”

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Author:John Edgar Wideman

“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.”

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Author:Bobby Knight

“Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.”

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Author:Tara VanDerveer