Why is Scottie Pippen taking a charge? Taking a charge is for people with no game!
Right now, you know, it’s not about the refs or anything else, it’s about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they’re 21 years old.
I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
I mean, I’m 6-foot-11, I’ve got red hair, freckles, I’m a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I’ve got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I’m a Deadhead.
When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense.
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
I’m a lifelong stutterer.
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever – he’s the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all.
Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.
It’s the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you’re on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry – they wear you out and there’s nothing like being on a great team.
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
If you’re living for today, if you’re only dreaming about yesterday, it doesn’t work. You got to know that tomorrow is going to be better. Then you’re on your way.
He told us that he had made a mistake by leaving the word love out of the Pyramid of Success. And that love is the single most powerful and important word in our language and culture. And until we allow the power of love to supersede the love of power, none of us has any chance of success at all. There.