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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be right.
-Charles Barkley
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
-Charles Barkley
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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
-Charles Barkley
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
-Charles Barkley
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I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
-Charles Barkley
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I know that I'm never as good or bad as any single performance. I've never believed my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
-Charles Barkley
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If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he's got no skills.
-Charles Barkley
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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
-Charles Barkley
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I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
-Julius Erving
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They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
-Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson
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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan
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To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
-Michael Jordan
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan
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I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
-Michael Jordan
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I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.
-Michael Jordan
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I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points.
Said after Michael Jordan scored a career high 69 points and Stacey King scored 1 point against the Cavaliers.
-Stacey King
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
-Bob Knight
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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
-Bob Knight
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I'm tired of hearing about money money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
-Shaquille O'Neal
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I've won at every level, except college and pro.
-Shaquille O'Neal
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I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.
-Shaquille O'Neal
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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.
-Shaquille O'Neal
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Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
-Scottie Pippen
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
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