Basketball Organizations Quotes

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare. ~ Jeb Bush

Culture is the organization's fingerprint. ~ Pearl Zhu

But why live in these environments at all? What possessed fish to get out of the water or live in the margins? Think of this: virtually every fish swimming in these 375-million-year-old streams was a predator of some kind. Some were up to sixteen feet long, almost twice the size of the largest Tiktaalik. The most common fish species we find alongside Tiktaalik is seven feet long and has a head as wide as a basketball. The teeth are barbs the size of railroad spikes. Would you want to swim in these ancient streams? ~ Neil Shubin

I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am. ~ Tim Duncan

Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be politically correct, and/or because of the money, publicity, and recognition to be gained, have disgraced themselves and the integrity of their institutions, organizations and publications. ~ Peter Ferrara

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years. ~ Lena Horne

Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. ~ Jimmy Fallon

If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way. ~ Kevin Durant

Playing basketball is definitely one of my favorite things to do. ~ Common

Most organizations fail to manage performance effectively because they fail to look into the system holistically. ~ Pearl Zhu

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved
no thanks. ~ Linda Ellerbee

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride. ~ Allen Iverson

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind. ~ Don Meyer

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles. ~ Gabriel Luna

I found a photo of Mom standing between Mick and Dad, who were both wearing basketball uniforms. Mom was perfectly groomed, of course, and looking very ladylike. I said I must have been adopted. Ma-ma-oo laughed and said that when Mom was a little girl, she was always doing things like tying two cookie sheets to her shoes and attempting to ski because she'd seen one of her movie star idols in a magazine, elegantly poised on the slopes of Switzerland. Mom flew down the hill, hit a bump and crashed into a bush. She broke her leg and earned the nickname "Crash. ~ Eden Robinson

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing. ~ Dennis Rodman

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. ~ John Brady

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best! ~ Kevin Durant

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

To be a professional you have to act like one as well.. ~ Alcurtis Turner

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that ~ Tom Izzo

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet. ~ Stephen Curry

God didn't miss any of us. ~ Al McGuire

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player. ~ Dennis Rodman

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life. ~ DeForest Soaries

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. ~ Don Meyer

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it. ~ Kobe Bryant

Agreements in the organizations of world power are never reached on the floor. They are made in the delegates' lounge and corridors long before the voting begins. ~ Carlos P. Romulo

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat. ~ Don Meyer

Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice. ~ Sue Gunter

There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances. ~ Dean Spade

CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent's love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences of child marriage, they're far less likely to push their children into it. ~ Helene D. Gayle

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind. ~ Red Auerbach

Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet. ~ Tex Winter

The team is an extension of the coach. ~ Don Meyer

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

We team up with conspicuous specialists, pathologists and radiation oncologists from prestigious organizations, for example, M.D. Anderson, St. John's, Cedars Sinai, Stanford, UCLA, and USC for head and neck cancer Los Angeles. ~ Cancercenter

I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in the 340s, 350s, the way you guys were taught on this planet, you're going to automatically think it's fat. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me. ~ Stephen King

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations. ~ Paul Cellucci

Now the Gang of McCrook was a miserable mob,
for whom robbing you blind was an everyday job.

They were known for their violence and criminal feats,
for a seedy selection of sinful deceits
from robbery, arson, and pyramid schemes,
to snatching the mascots from basketball teams.

They had once robbed a pet shop of all of its cash,
and they never - not ever - recycled their trash! ~ Robert Paul Weston

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant. ~ Peter Drucker

Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position. ~ Shelly Glover

The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state. ~ Barack Obama

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources ~ Henry Mintzberg