I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread
crumbs to get our players to and from class
--George Raveling
Washington State basketball coach
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
--Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Center
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
--Dick Vertleib
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
--Dr. James Naismith, the father of basketball
Boards, Boards, Boards
--Knute Rockne
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
--Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson 1959-, American Basketball Player
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
--Bobby Knight 1940-, American Basketball Coach
If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
--Isiah Thomas American Basketball Player, Coach
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.
--John Wooden 1910-, American Basketball Coach
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
1910-, American Basketball Coach
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.
--Charles Barkley American Basketball Player
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