#basketball

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

Basketball is basketball. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#basketball #create #get #how #maneuver

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#jumping #like #money #out #politics

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#basketball #basketball player #got #player #shoot

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#gift #greatest #greatest gift #i #life

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking. ↗

— Rick Fox

#been #feast #glorious #i #left

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

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