#basket

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career. ↗

— Pete Maravich

#basketball #been #brief #career #found

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#away #ball player #basketball #basketball player #being

With me and basketball, it became part of me. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#became #me #part

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#basketball #football #olympic #problems #sports

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#baskets #craftsmanship #gives #imagination #many

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

— Bill Bradley

#jumping #like #money #out #politics

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#basketball #basketball player #got #player #shoot

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

#basketball #basketball player #been #best #history

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. ↗

— Will McDonough

#athlete #basketball #brown #browns #ever

Sorry!' Dave's friend yelled when he saw me. 'That was my-' But i wasn't listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#dave-wade #anger