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On the All-Star Game: "Hell, there ain't but 15 black millionaires in the whole country & half of 'em are right here in this room." On his 17-year old daughter not dating yet: "Thank goodness. I just hope she doesn't start before I go in the Hall of Fame. That way, I won't have to kill anybody before I get inducted." On the goal of the '92 Olympic Dream Team when playing Panama in the Tournament of the Americas: "To get the Canal back."

Asked if he had ever been in the governor's office in Montgomery, Barkley said no. "They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama," he said, "unless they're cleaning."

"I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five."

Charles Barkley, American Basketball Legend, author of "Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?".

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eBA 2009 Best Basketball Clip Candidate

' Hi ! It is Michael Jordan !

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The best of the Basketball Quotes: Silent Stars Speak !

"Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships."
Michael Jordan

"With one million or five, ten or hundred, still you can only eat once - lunch and dinner."
Drazen Petrovic

Drazen Petrovic in a Photograph from: Basketball Notes by Alex

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Some things you just can't question. Like you can't question why two plus two is four. So don't question it, don't try to look it up. I don't know who made it, all I know is it was put in my head that two plus two is four. So certain things happen. Why does it rain? Why am I so sexy? I don't know."
Shaquille O'Neal

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The best of the Basketball Quotes: Silent Stars Speak !

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to (in answer to a question whether he visited the Parthenon while in Greece).... I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok...." — Shaquille O'Neal

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Legend

Photograph: Basketball Notes by Alex

"I learned to give him the ball".... (Magic Johnson's answer when he was asked about what he learned about the game of Basketball by playing with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

" I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...."
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a Basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming...."
"People say I enjoy being famous. I don't. But what choice do I have?..."
"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it! ...."
(In a commercial for Basketball shoes) — Charles Barkley

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The Best Basketball Quotes: Mike Krzyzewski ~ Coach K

"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."

"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."

"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."

"I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball."

Mike Krzyzewski, American Basketball Coach, author of
"Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success".

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The Best Basketball Quotes: Phil Jackson

"The ideal way to win a championship is step by step."

"In basketball -- as in life -- true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way."

"People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, ... This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating."

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."

"If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball."

Phil Jackson, American Basketball Coach, author of "The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul".

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The Best Basketball Quotes: John Wooden

"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. "

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. "

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

John Wooden, American Basketball Coach, author of "They Call Me Coach".

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The Best Basketball Quotes: John Wooden

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. "

"I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent."

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. "

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

John Wooden, American Basketball Coach, author of "They Call Me Coach".

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The Best Basketball Quotes: Phil Jackson

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart."

"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We."

"Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents."

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."

"I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul."

Phil Jackson, American Basketball Coach, author of "The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul".

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Christmas Lights: John Wooden

"I always tried to make clear that Basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live.

There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere......

.......It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in Basketball, from religion."

John Wooden, American Basketball Coach, author of "They Call Me Coach".

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