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• I am, first of all, a basketball player. I’ve done this for so very long… For me, it’s been essential to be successful on the court.

  Tony Parker

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• I’m someone who always comes on the court no matter what’s going on in my life. It’s all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don’t let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what’s going on or what people are talking about.

  Kris Humphries

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• If you don’t like basketball and you’re from Kentucky, they’ll kick you out!

  Josh Hopkins

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• What I know is that if you’re going to play half-court, you’d better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That’s what I learned as a player.

  Tom Heinsohn

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• In every game, there’s three teams out there. There’s the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

  Tom Heinsohn

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• About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped – and finding that you don’t have the ball in them – is a great little old leveler.

  Tom Heinsohn

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• I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.

  Tom Heinsohn

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• I do something that I don’t think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn’t the announcer warm up?

  Chick Hearn

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• I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That’s when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. ‘You’re in theater but you can play football?’

  Dennis Haysbert

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• I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

  Dwyane Wade

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• Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

  Rick Majerus

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• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  Yani Tseng

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• It ain’t like we’re curing cancer or anything, we’re watching basketball.

  Charles Barkley

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• As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

  Bob Knight

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• You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

  Earvin Johnson Jr.

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• Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

  Earvin Johnson Jr.

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• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  Earvin Johnson Jr.

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• Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

  Shaquille O'Neal

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• Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

  Shaquille O'Neal

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• Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

  Julius Erving

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