#bask

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. ↗

— Will McDonough

#athlete #basketball #brown #browns #ever

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. ↗

— Robert Orben

#desk #happiness #small #very #wastebasket

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#always #angry #bad #basketball #best

Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#dave-wade #anger

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspiration #survival #courage

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting. ↗

— Velma Wallis

#athabaskan #courage #inspirational #survival #courage

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership. ↗

— Earl Monroe

#crawford #goes #leadership #me #most

Now, granted, Howard doesn't fit the conventional psychological profile of a rebounder - that of the no-nonsense, utilitarian "dirty work" specialist. Rather, this is a guy who sings Beyoncé at the free throw line, who quotes not Scarface but Finding Nemo, whose idea of humor is ordering 10 pizzas to be delivered to another player's hotel room, or knocking on teammates' doors and sprinting off down the hall, giggling. He goofs around during practice, during press conferences and during team shootarounds, for which Magic coach Stan Van Gundy has had to institute a no-flatulence rule because, as teammate Rashard Lewis says, "Dwight really likes to cut the cheese. ↗

— Chris Ballard

#humor #nonfiction #art

Good thing in this business is that you just have to make one big shot and that’s enough to make you forget 9 other shots that you missed. ↗

— Guy Zucker

#sports-agent #business

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#bread #food #meals #picnics #sausage