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#1

“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
― Jean Paul

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#2

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
― Michael Jordan

tags: basketball-star, sportsmanship, teamwork

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#3

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
― Phil Jackson

tags: basketball, business, job, play, sports, team, teamwork, work

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#4

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”
― Michael Jordan

tags: basketball, excellence, sporting-advice

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#5

“One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

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#6

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
― Tiger Woods

tags: fashion, golf, race, racial-profiling, sports

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#7

“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

tags: baseball, basketball, david-halberstam, julius-erving, professionalism, sports, work-ethic, writing

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#8

“Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun

into graceful shafts of light…
I just want to be pure.”
― Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

tags: poignant

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#9

“I am more than just a Serious basketball fan. I am a life-long Addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: basketball, kentucky

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#10

“The basketball court for me, during a game, is the most peaceful place I can imagine. On the basketball court, I worry about nothing. When I'm out there, no one can bother me...”
― Michael Jordan

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#11

“Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up.”
― David Dunham

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#12

“...what they need isn't logic...it is trust." ~ Aomine Daiki”
― Tadatoshi Fujimaki, 黒子のバスケ 12 [Kuroko no Basuke 12]

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#13

“We just have to get stronger and stronger." ~ Tetsuya Kuroko”
― Tadatoshi Fujimaki, 黒子のバスケ 16 [Kuroko no Basuke 16]

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#14

“I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.”
― Michael Jordan

tags: basketball

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#15

“The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: basketball, kentucky

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#16

“People always assume I play basketball because I'm tall. I'd like to ask people if they play miniature golf because they're short, but I had a feeling breaking that one out right now wasn't going to endear me to anyone.”
― Aprilynne Pike, Life After Theft

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#17

“[...]to protect your beliefs, you have to fight and win." ~ Daiki Aomine”
― Tadatoshi Fujimaki, 黒子のバスケ 18 [Kuroko no Basuke 18]

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#18

“But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.”
― Bill Simmons, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

tags: basketball

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