#basket

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

#basketball #basketball team #championships #day #double

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #basketball player #because #business #else

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#ball #basketball #dream #father #gave

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#back #basketball #because #coach #cut

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#because #building #city #courts #else

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#between #fixed #growing #growing up #i

Basketball is basketball. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#basketball #create #get #how #maneuver

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#jumping #like #money #out #politics