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I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that? ~ Shaquille O'Neal
I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something. ~ Shaquille O'Neal
Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time? ~ Shaquille O'Neal
All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again ... and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal. ~ Wilt Chamberlain
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down. ~ Yao Ming
I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. ~ Kobe Bryant
Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end. ~ Mark Jackson
Do your best when no one is looking. ~ Bob Cousy
All really successful coaches have a system. ~ Jim Valvano
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize. ~ Don Meyer
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract. ~ Don Meyer
We win because we play together as a team. ~ John Havlicek
If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! ~ Michael Jordan
Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink. ~ Doc Rivers
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. ~ Bill Russell
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game. ~ Adolph Rupp
I found the best way is to use Chiropractors, not only after injury, but also before injury. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get. ~ Jerry Tarkanian
All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. ~ Charlie Cox
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing. ~ Hubie Brown
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue. ~ Pat Riley
You cant win unless you learn how to lose. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. ~ Phil Jackson
I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about. ~ Bill Walton
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball. ~ Don Meyer
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team. ~ Don Meyer
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working. ~ Adolph Rupp
I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me. ~ Chamique Holdsclaw
Play the game with a smile. ~ Earl Monroe
The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes. ~ Larry Bird
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. ~ Mike Krzyzewski
I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus. ~ Geno Auriemma
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. ~ Dean Smith
The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all. ~ Solon
Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught. ~ Pat Summitt
The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery. ~ Greg Rusedski
Not every injury is physical. People don't realize that. ~ Mariana Zapata
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen. ~ Don Meyer
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots. ~ Don Meyer
An injury to one is an injury to all. ~ David C. Coates
I caught an elbow playing basketball ~ Michael Scofield
I've been called worse on the basketball court. ~ Barack Obama
Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure. ~ Bob Sundvold
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes. ~ Al McGuire
I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself. ~ Terrell Owens
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball. ~ Bill Walton
Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball. ~ Roland Lazenby
My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball. ~ Steve Nash
To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball," she says. "I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball. ~ Mo'ne Davis
As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player. ~ Raekwon
In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away. ~ Maryam D'Abo
I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies. ~ Rick Majerus
I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister. ~ Dirk Nowitzki
A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury. ~ Jean Racine
Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury. ~ Andrew Symonds
Never do an enemy a small injury. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~ Dave Barry
The man who pardons easily courts injury. ~ Pierre Corneille
You can recovery from any injury. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury. ~ Suzan Shown Harjo
I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball. ~ Kim Gordon
I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn. ~ Ross Perot, Jr.
Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be? ~ Michael Jordan
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. ~ Tom Waits
The man is free who is protected from injury. ~ Daniel Webster
Adultery is the injury of nature. ~ Plato
I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water - and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury. ~ Richelle Mead
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me. ~ Kevin Durant
There is a point at which even justice does injury. ~ Sophocles
In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. ~ Aesop
I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball. ~ Kevin Durant
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball. ~ French Montana
Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate. ~ Elvis Stojko
Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games ~ John Wooden
I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off. ~ Hannibal Buress
If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job ~ Steve Nash
I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is. ~ Atsushi
I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow ~ Mike Krzyzewski
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~ Darryl Dawkins
The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury. ~ Marcus Aurelius
I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. ~ Richard Hammond
I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it. ~ Steve Nash
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. ~ Socrates
Peter Weir has just shrugged off an ankle injury ~ Jock Brown
Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. ~ Samuel Johnson
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. ~ Lucretius
I'm one injury away from hanging up the racket at any time. ~ Lleyton Hewitt
Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal. ~ Daniel Snyder
I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway. ~ John Amaechi
Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl. ~ Eric Williams
I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury. ~ Jayson Williams
The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running. ~ Grete Waitz
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. ~ Magic Johnson
Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success. ~ Bud Wilkinson
I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball. ~ Stephen Curry
Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within ~ Bob Dylan
No, I had a back injury early on in my life. ~ Merle Haggard