It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.
Allen Iverson
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole
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I played basketball. I went to school and played basketball and was trying to pursue that as a career path and kind of just fell into acting.
Robbie Jones
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I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
Chance The Rapper
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If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
Alonzo Mourning
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When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
Karl Malone
MeBasketballYouPlaySaidWill
Portland doesn't read like a basketball town, unless you remember what the NBA was like before it exploded into the mainstream in the Eighties: back when cities like Seattle, Baltimore, and Philadelphia moved the needle.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
BasketballRememberYouBackSeattle
Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
Blake Griffin
New ThingsChallengesBasketballYou
There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.
Phil Jackson
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
Iggy Azalea
BasketballAustraliaWatchReally
A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
Ross Perot, Jr.
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Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Bill Gates
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I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
Pete Rose
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When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Mike Krzyzewski
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I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.
Vivica A. Fox
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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
Sherman Alexie
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida
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As a child, I was very active. I was a gymnast, I played touch football, netball and basketball. When I was 16 years old, I started yoga. I started working out at an early age.
Miranda Kerr
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I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
Terry Crews
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I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal
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I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.
Carlisle Floyd
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I grew up watching North American sport - basketball, hockey - so I like it when it's a little bit more energetic, rowdier, heckling either for you or against you. I think it's fun to have that in sport.
Milos Raonic
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I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.
Saoirse Ronan
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