Portal:Basketball/Quotes
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- They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. — Los Angeles Lakers point guard and power forward Magic Johnson, on his returning to the National Basketball Association in 1995 after having retired in 1991 upon his learning of his HIV-seropositivity
- Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win. — George Mason University head coach Jim Larranaga, addressing the Patriots team prior to their regional final game against the top-seeded University of Connecticut Huskies in the 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Basketball Championship
- The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet, eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since. — Milwaukee Bucks center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, on the sky hook move for which he became well known
- I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this. — Seattle Storm power forward Lauren Jackson, about teammate point guard Sue Bird on the occasion of the Storm's 2004 Women's National Basketball Association championship
- I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this. — Point guard Gianluca Basile, on Italy's winning the silver medal in the men's event at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, held in 2004 in Athens, Greece, in view of the team's having finished third in the 2003 European Basketball Championships
- If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. Th[at] guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness. — Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Rod Hundley, pictured, on center Bill Russell, behind whom the Boston Celtics won eleven National Basketball Association championships, including those of 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, and 1969 over the Lakers
- There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. — Oklahoma City University head coach Abe Lemons, on his disfavoring of complex offensive schemes as against improvisational play
- Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses. — New York Knicks small forward Bill Bradley, on the nature of basketball as a team sport
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