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  • A big market is something that doesn't really concern me too much. It's cool to think about, it's good for off-the-court deals. But I'm more of a basketball player. That's what I want to be known as. And this is the best place for me to play basketball. I'm glad I'm here.

  • All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

  • 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.

    Source: www.nobelprize.org
  • I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

    "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.
  • One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

    Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013
  • 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.

  • I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

  • There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

    "Author Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight'". Interview with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. April 11, 2007.
  • As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  • Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

  • I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

  • I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

  • My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Jason Kidd from Dec 01, 2011
  • Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?"

    Source: wwd.com
  • I want people to follow their dreams, yes but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

    Basketball   Dream   Kids  
  • Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

  • Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

    Basketball   Sports   Fun  
  • Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.

  • Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

    Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin
  • A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

    John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group
  • If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

    Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
  • I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.

    "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.
  • We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  • I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

    Funny   Basketball   Team  
  • You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  • One man cannot make a team.

  • I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  • Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

    Funny   Basketball   Team  
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