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  • I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it. -- Dennis Rodman
  • A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player. -- Jason Kidd
  • Happiness begins where selfishness ends. -- John Wooden
  • Not a game, not a game... practice. -- Allen Iverson
  • Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. -- James Naismith
  • I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. -- Michael Jordan
  • The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. -- John Wooden
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  • Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. -- Michael Jordan
  • When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA. -- Derrick Rose
  • I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet. -- Tom Tolbert
  • I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live. -- Chris Paul
  • The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman. -- LeBron James
  • I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. -- Michael Jordan
  • I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.' -- Kevin Durant
  • You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. -- John Wooden
  • Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise. -- Michael Jordan
  • Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around. -- Larry Bird
  • I've really gotten into fashion, and ever since I got into the NBA, I feel like players are walking billboards. -- Chandler Parsons
  • The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. -- Bill Russell
  • 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
  • If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. -- Dean Smith
  • The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made. -- Tim Duncan
  • I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either. -- Jeremy Lin
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  • I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis. -- Chris Paul
  • The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me. -- Larry Bird
  • You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. -- Dean Kamen
  • If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy. -- Bobby Knight
  • 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
  • I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA. -- Dwyane Wade
  • I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league. -- Isaiah Thomas
  • I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself. -- Magic Johnson
  • I'm not for the flashes; I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know. I just want to win, I want to be good at what I do, um, and look back upon these days of playing in the NBA. -- Kevin Garnett
  • The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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  • I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. -- Magic Johnson
  • You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me. -- Kevin Durant
  • The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from. -- Derrick Rose
  • I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity. -- Jeremy Lin
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  • I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it. -- Don Nelson
  • It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. -- David Stern
  • My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA. -- James Harden
  • Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle. -- Channing Tatum
  • I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates. -- Shabazz Muhammad
  • If I were involved with the NBA, I wouldn't want a 19-year-old or a 20-year-old kid to bring into all the travel and all the problems that exist in the NBA. I would want a much more mature kid. I would want a kid that maybe I've been watching on another team, and now he's 21, 22 years old instead of 18 or 19, and I might trade for that kid. -- Bobby Knight
  • In the NBA, it's about patience. -- Chauncey Billups
  • I'm the best player in the NBA. -- Paul Pierce
  • The NBA is becoming a global game. -- Dikembe Mutombo
  • Im the best point guard in the NBA. -- Stephon Marbury
  • Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS. -- Marvin Barnes
  • The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality. -- Scott Brooks
  • If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away. -- Art Rust, Jr.
  • (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players. -- Doc Rivers
  • I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay, -- Jason Collins
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  • I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA. -- Kobe Bryant
  • I am very happy to be here in the NBA. -- Dwyane Wade
  • It's always been my dream to play in the NBA. -- Paul Pierce
  • I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history -- Greg Oden
  • I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs. -- Coby Bell
  • A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft. -- Josh Howard
  • I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team. -- Stan Kroenke
  • It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player. -- Josh Howard
  • There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner -- Ted Leonsis
  • Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does. -- Mark Cuban
  • I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA. -- Dwyane Wade
  • The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital. -- Pau Gasol
  • Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship. -- Oscar Robertson
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  • There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them. -- Scott Brooks
  • Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money. -- Dennis Rodman
  • On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. -- Bill Russell
  • The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league. -- Lamar Odom
  • This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. -- Kevin Garnett
  • I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA. -- Larry Bird
  • You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire. -- Dwight Howard
  • That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level. -- John Starks
  • I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game. -- Allen Iverson
  • Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players. -- Iman Shumpert
  • Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. -- Pat Williams
  • I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy. -- Kyrie Irving
  • Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars. -- Edward de Bono
  • It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected. -- Larry Bird
  • People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. -- Oscar Robertson
  • I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes. -- Marcus Camby
  • I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted. -- Kevin Johnson
  • Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid. -- Dennis Rodman
  • Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players. -- David Stern
  • My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils. -- Dante Hall
  • For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players. -- Kevin Durant
  • Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them. -- Julius Erving
  • The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans. -- Bob Cousy
  • I was hoping to get to the NBA, but the Lord took me on a different path. -- Robbie Jones
  • There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all. -- LeBron James
  • Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year. -- Dwyane Wade
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  • I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy. -- Chris Bosh
  • He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard. -- Kobe Bryant
  • NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year -- Arn Tellem
  • I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up. -- Kevin Durant
  • We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well. -- David Blatt
  • We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom. -- Manu Ginobili
  • In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back. -- Nate Robinson
  • If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can. -- Antonio Davis
  • The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL? -- Ryan Lochte
  • I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing. -- Dwight Howard
  • I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. -- Oscar Robertson
  • Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help. -- Jeremy Lin
  • Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout. -- Frank Caliendo
  • A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players. -- Stephen Pagliuca
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  • I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam. -- Chris Paul
  • It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league. -- Michael Jordan
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