Pete Maravich Quotes

• My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

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  Tags in Career

• It’s hard when your father’s the coach. Sometimes you don’t know where one leaves off and the other begins.

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  Tags in Coaching

• I don’t want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40.

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  Tags in Pay

• I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

  Pete Maravich

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  Tags in Focus

• There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

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  Topics in Goal, Life

  Tags in Focus

• They don’t pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

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• Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.

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  Tags in Nothing, Big, Show

• Most of my career was negative.

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  Tags in Career, Negative

• I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Talent, Fatal

• I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lost, Career, Discipline

Pete Maravich (10)

Birth:	22nd June, 1947
Death:	5th January, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

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