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In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.
The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
It doesn't matter if it's game one or game 82, playoffs or whatever. Sometimes the basketball gods don't play in your favor that night.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.
What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.
My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.
I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?
They shot the ball well early. What comes out of the microwave hot doesn't always stay hot. I know, because I eat bagels in the morning.
No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.
I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.
When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.
I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.
I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.
I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.
When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.
I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.
I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.