Up Quotes
65526 Up quotes by 19207 unique authors
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After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His…
— Bill Russell
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Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.
— Red Auerbach
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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
— Al McGuire
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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.
— Al McGuire
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to…
— Don Meyer
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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…
— Don Meyer
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We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like…
— Don Meyer
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.
— Jim Valvano
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We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you…
— Jim Valvano
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You remember when you were a kid growing up, and believed in Santa Claus? There's not much difference between Santa Claus and me today, you…
— Bobby Knight
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
— Bill Walton
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I grew up in the heart of the Depression.
— Bob Cousy
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I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.
— Steve Nash
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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
— Elgin Baylor
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it…
— Magic Johnson
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Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.
— Bob Cousy
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Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.
— Jason Kidd
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Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym.…
— Magic Johnson
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Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.
— Wilt Chamberlain
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Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how…
— Bill Walton
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They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to…
— Wilt Chamberlain
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