Quotes of: John-wooden Keyword

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

Dwyane Wade

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James A. Baldwin

It's no secret I was willing to commit to Minnesota for five years. I'm very happy with my contract. I'd love to be in Minnesota. But like anybody else, I want to win.

Kevin Love

If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play hard to get!

Chandler Parsons

I don't like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.

Chandler Parsons

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

Don Nelson

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

Dean Smith

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Denzel Washington

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Brad Holland

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

Bill Walton

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Bill Walton

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.

Carmelo Anthony

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

Carmelo Anthony

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Charles Barkley

With new artists, you really don't have anything to reference. You're helping to develop their sound, define who they are vocally.

Harvey Mason, Jr.

I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.

Joakim Noah

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

Jackie Robinson

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

Jim Valvano