Inspirational Basketball famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

  • But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

  • We're all unique and individual biochemically, but there are certain rules that if you violate them, you're going to have disease in the body. If you're aligned with them, you're going to have an abundance of energy and vitality and health.

  • Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

  • It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

  • The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really want is for new buyers to be able to borrow enough money to buy the houses from mortgage defaulters, and thus save the banks from suffering from more mortgage defaults.

  • You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

  • If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

  • The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

  • I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.