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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Me
Knowledge
Money
Allah
Better
Islam
Despise
Says
Righteous
Prestige
Criterion
Status
See
About
Color
He
Feel
Mosque
Most
Another
Go
Than
Inferior
Social
Who
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Bill Gates
Needs
You
Matter
Everyone
Gymnast
Tennis
Tennis Player
Whether
Coach
Bridge
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
John Wooden
You
Important
More
Than
Person
Far
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan
Believe
Only
Perfect
Greatest
Either
Thing
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan
Time
Me
Game
Lose
Sense
Something
Prove
Motivation
Move
Away
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
Dirk Nowitzki
Nothing
More
Always
Wanted
Less
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
Kevin Durant
Love
Area
Talented
Am
Lot
Just
Different
Different Areas
Who
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
Harvey Mason, Jr.
Christmas
Day
Great
Every Day
Become
Every
Birthdays
Everywhere
Had
Trying
Worked
Eve
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Christmas Eve
It's just something I pride myself on as a basketball player, having that knowledge, being the guy who can go to any situation and make the situation better for that team.
Andre Iguodala
Myself
Knowledge
Better
Pride
Situation
Something
Guy
Having
Make
Go
Any
Just
Being
Just Something
Team
Who
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.
Bill Bradley
Life
Humanity
Personality
Political
My Life
Define
Totality
Never
Allowed
Political Life
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Being a great basketball player is only part of who you are.
Chris Mullin
Great
You
Only
Part
Being
Who
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I did pursue to be a good basketball player.
Christian Laettner
Good
Pursue
Did
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I think every basketball player I know loves ping pong. Everyone played in on the Dream Team. I played Clyde Drexler and Chris Mullin and even David Stern once. David Stern saw I was pretty good.
Christian Laettner
Good
Every
Think
Everyone
Once
Saw
Dream
Pretty
Pretty Good
David
Stern
Know
Loves
Team
Even
Chris
Played
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
It's very important to know how to dribble and pass and catch and cut at a very high level if you want to be a good basketball player.
Christian Laettner
Good
You
Important
High
High Level
Dribble
Catch
Know
Pass
How
Very
Want
Cut
Level
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I can't say I go through life liking it and that I pursue to be hated, but I did pursue to be a good basketball player.
Christian Laettner
Life
Good
Say
Hated
Pursue
Through
Liking
Go
Did
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
Chuck Connors
Good
Me
World
Defense
Bad
Greatest
Offense
Far
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?
Coco Rocha
Fashion
Needs
Too
Everybody
General
Knows
Tall
How
Model
Skinny
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.
Devin Booker
You
Destined
Feel
Like
Knowing
Makes
Just
Your
Professional
Dad
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
Draymond Green
Me
You
People
Power
Out
Small
Like
Period
Came
Asking
Forward
Player
Draft
Kept
Basketball
Basketball Player
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
Eddie Murphy
Character
Think
Rather
Could
Boxer
Off
Than
Short
Script
Little
Original
Player
Pull
Basketball
Basketball Player
I'm just trying to be the best basketball player I can be, you know, move the ball.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Best
You
Know
Ball
Ball Player
Trying
Move
Just
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I want to be an all-around basketball player.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
All-Around
Want
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Me
Culture
People
Values
Blessed
System
Feel
Look
Around
Came
Just
Africa
Where
Them
Compare
Player
Here
Basketball
Basketball Player
Position
I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
Henry Zebrowski
Love
Man
Mad
Would
Would-Be
Could
Over
Like
Again
If I Could
Cook
NBA
NBA Basketball
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
J. Cole
Dreams
You
People
Rapper
Black
Young
Other
Kids
Telling
Besides
Rappers
Follow
Take
How
Yes
Paths
Want
Not Interested
Interested
Them
Show
Many
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
Jack Ramsay
Life
Game
College
Other
Worst
Minimal
Eastern
Athletic
Physical
Entire
Only
Recovered
Through
League
Couple
Without
Permanent
Brain
Being
Which
While
Player
Playing
Damage
Basketball
Basketball Player
Setbacks
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