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I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem
Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out
You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can
It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.
I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.
I am really competitive. I take my basketball very seriously, even though I'm not really that good. I take it very seriously.
Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way, you get better.
I grew up in Brixton as a young teenager playing basketball for the Brixton Topcats, which marked the beginning of my career.
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'
For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.
To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.
There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.
I can never stop working hard. Each day I feel that I have to improve. Hardwork...Determination...I gotta keep pushing myself.
You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.