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Monday, December 13, 2004

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy. -Bobby Knight

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. -Phil Jackson

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. -Tim Duncan

Even when I'm old and gray, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game. -Michael Jordan

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. -Scottie Pippen

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

Alonzo Mourning, on winning the Defensive Player of the Year award: "I thank my teammates for letting their men blow by them."

"I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak." -Shaquille O'Neal

Wilt Chamberlain, on why he never fouled out of an NBA game: "I've learned I can't help the team sitting on the bench."

Larry Bird, commenting at the ceremony when his Indiana State No. 33 jersey was retired: "We had a special team. We played together, played to win, and everyone knew their roles. ...Everyone knew I was going to take all the shots."

Phil Jackson, commenting on Kobe Bryant: "I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid."

Latrell Sprewell, commenting on his seeking an extension on a contract that will pay him $14.8 million this year: "I've got a family to feed."

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Thursday, July 03, 2003

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
- Tom Clancy

"Never mistake motion for action."
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan

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