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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
We cut him off and there was nowhere for him to go but out of bounds ... It's still the greatest move I've ever seen in basketball, the all-time greatest.
Quote by -Magic Johnson
He’s [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.
Quote by -Lyndon B. Johnson
"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."
Quote by -Michael Korda
"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"When I really like something, I try to put my all into it. This is something thats different from when I was growing up on the basketball court, running up and down, scoring 30 points or something. This is totally something different."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"The new guys bring energy, intensity and emotion. The last couple games, they showed what they can bring to the team."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony