#bask

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

#around #ball player #basketball #basketball player #blessed

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#back #basketball #because #coach #cut

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family. ↗

— Sister Parish

#become #cared #even #family #generations

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself. ↗

— Candace Parker

#been #career #myself #now #people

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#because #building #city #courts #else

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#done #get #how #i #i think

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#basketball #football #olympic #problems #sports

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#eastern #guy #i #lot #meditate

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. ↗

— Dean Smith

#basketball #five #game #mean #players

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i