The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.
LARRY BIRDThe nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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First master the fundamentals.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.
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Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.
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I can see why fans don’t like to watch pro basketball. I don’t, either. It’s not exciting.
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I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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When I was a player, I didn’t expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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The more you win, the better you’re gonna get. It grows on itself.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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