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David Stern Quotes
David Stern
American
Businessman
Born:
Sep 22
,
1942
Fans
Game
Sports
Think
Will
You
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You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced.
David Stern
You
Eyes
Events
Opportunities
Will
Sum
Sum Total
Defined
Indeed
Circumstances
Crises
Responses
Total
Faced
Directions
Course
Ready
Ultimately
Anticipate
Situations
Move
Just
Depending
Different
Which
Different Directions
Your
Even
Keep
Imagine
By nature, I'm a person who always says that whatever I've done, I could've done better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones.
David Stern
Future
Time
Nature
Me
Waiting
Experience
Better
Try
Will
Past
Whatever
Believe
Says
Something
Terms
Because
Deal
Always
How
Educate
Person
Done
Dwell
Happens
Next
Next Time
Who
Helped
I'm not into politics.
David Stern
Politics
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
David Stern
Wonderful
Management
Smart
Signing
Trades
Wonderful Thing
Function
Thing
Drafting
Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.
David Stern
Work
You
Free
Free Speech
Indeed
Costly
Rather
Sort
Been
Governments
Than
Owners
Acknowledge
Which
Against
Coaches
Agree
NBA
Players
Speech
My own basketball background was ripping up my ACL in a lawyer's league.
David Stern
Lawyer
Own
Background
Ripping
My Own
League
Up
Basketball
We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.
David Stern
Great
Sports
Opportunity
Fans
Collective
Few
Our
System
Bad
Collective Bargaining
League
Make
Dollars
Where
Bargaining
Teams
Compete
Desire
Need
You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
David Stern
Attitude
You
Inspire
Walk
See
Having
Shaking
Shanghai
Baking
Going
Beijing
Them
Youngsters
Who
Jeremy
We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
David Stern
Gone
Enough
Minutes
Material
Get
Did
Just
Store
NBA
Jeremy
Fast
I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
David Stern
World
Despite
Sport
Greatest
Been
Cup
Fixed
Games
World Cup
Found
Aware
Specifically
Spectacle
Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.
David Stern
Game
Joy
Pride
Achieve
Nothing
Living
Our
Top
Correct
More
Make
Call
Because
Than
Officials
Human
Want
Happen
Professional
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