- Nov 07, 2020
Basketball Team Quotes
Five fingers, one fist.
These basketball team quotes come from people who actually played - a small-school kid navigating bullying from older teammates, a captain who led the same team through high school and college. Five fingers becoming a fist, real Ability on a team.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But none of the organized teams I was on were anywhere near as competitive as the games on the street.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020