Basketball Rivalry Quotes

#1. I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Sondheim

#2. It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

Aimee Carter

#3. I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

Ehud Barak

#4. Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

Red Auerbach

#5. There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

Gloria Gaither

#6. He wasn't good or evil or cruel or extreme in any way but one, which was that he had elevated grayness to the status of a fine art and cultivated a mind that was as bleak and pitiless and logical as the slopes of Hell.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

Mason Cooley

#8. Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Morley Safer

#9. Give me release.
I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy.
Give me deliverance.
From what only looks like generosity. What only looks like love.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. No don't hit it. Just press it gently.

Loki Laufeyson

#11. People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.

Bill Russell

#12. The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#13. TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Hubie Brown

#14. When you learn the language of divine love, everything become divine, miraculous and lovely.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Ensign Fitzgerald had somehow managed to get himself a jewelled sabre that he was now flashing around like a shilling whore given a guinea fan.

Bernard Cornwell

#16. Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

Graham Greene