My older brothers were both basketball players so I just grew up around the gym. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right… — Patrick Beverley Copy Share Image
I hope they'll say I was one of the hardest-working basketball players on both ends of the floor. — Gary Payton Copy Share Image
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players. — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
I just want to compete with the best basketball players. And I think I can compete. — Juancho Hernangomez Copy Share Image
I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That's who I am. That's how Philadelphia basketball players are raised. — Kyle Lowry Copy Share Image
I want to play at the highest level, the NBA, and one day be one of the greatest basketball players ever. — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
Duke has had many lightning rods over the years, it's a long list of 'em, a long list of white Duke basketball… — Grayson Allen Copy Share Image
I don't think a swimmer on film works unless you're Australian, because for them, swimmers are like their football players, their basketball… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to… — Warren Moon Copy Share Image
I think sometimes when you look at Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook it's so easy to see them as these iconic, unbelievably… — Billy Donovan Copy Share Image
Me as a person, I'm not the president of the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). I don't even know what to say.… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely… — Tony Finau Copy Share Image
I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up,… — Chick Hearn Copy Share Image
A lot more variables in golf. But the biggest thing is like just routine. Like I think that's the biggest correlation between… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The great thing about [Michael] Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young… — Sheila Johnson Copy Share Image
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“I have a boy problem,” I said. “DELICIOUS,” Kaitlyn responded. I told her all about it, complete with the awkward face touching,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinterested away-from-home crowd while warming up.… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Chapter One Vivek Ranadivé “IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE.” 1. When Vivek Ranadivé decided… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that mainstream American habits are not always leading kids to educational and life success. In Sunset Park, Chinese kids… — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
“I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You can knock me all you want, but professional basketball players are an elite group and I've been doing it 12 years. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
Sam Jones and I, neither one of us were point guards, but we played the backcourt a lot together because we were… — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
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