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I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track. -- Sarah Shahi
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team. -- Bobby Knight
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds. -- Adam Carolla
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. -- Mike Krzyzewski
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team. -- Charles Mingus
If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot. -- J. B. Smoove
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares! -- Zac Efron
This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team. -- Doc Rivers
I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy. -- Kanye West
The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life. -- Red Auerbach
If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98. -- Jerry Juhl
Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer. -- Rita Rudner
For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline. -- Joe B. Hall
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or playing one-on-one. -- Ted Solotaroff
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times. -- Hubie Brown
After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?' -- Jimmy Fallon
In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference. -- Tom Heinsohn
But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be. -- Jonathan Groff
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. -- Bill Simmons
I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team. -- Marla Maples
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players. -- David Maraniss
Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton. -- John W. Rogers, Jr.
We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see. -- Doug Collins
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up. -- Elinor Lipman
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can. -- Tim McGraw
When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism. -- Jason Chaffetz
Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night. -- Gary David Goldberg
I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes. -- Adam DeVine
My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and run, and I ran for 30 years pretty religiously. -- Dick Gephardt
Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team. -- Hubie Brown
Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success. -- John Kundla
In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself. -- Pete Carril
I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball. -- Michael Eisner
Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport. -- Steve Ballmer
I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts. -- Len Elmore
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. -- Dean Smith
Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team? -- John A. Passaro
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for. -- Julius Erving
Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted. -- Pat Riley
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. -- Novak Djokovic
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. -- Bob Cousy
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team. -- Mark E. Hyman
The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team. -- Dennis Rodman
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. -- Bill Russell
One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation. -- Len Elmore
When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial. -- Rick Pitino
The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants. -- Alyssa Milano
Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots -- David Blatt
We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games. -- Carmelo Anthony
The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win -- Doug Collins
The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game. -- George Karl
It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense. -- Del Harris
The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team. -- Darby Stanchfield
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual. -- Bill Walton
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. -- Michael Mandelbaum
I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat. -- Erin Wasson
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. -- Abby Wambach
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win. -- Allen Iverson
I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball. -- Jerry West
Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Menâ??s Basketball team, and now the All-Star team. -- Kenny Smith
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building. -- Dean Smith
People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team. -- Oscar Robertson
My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team. -- David Sanborn
I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play." -- Geena Davis

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