| It is March again and for basketball fans
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| | separate any success, whether it be in
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| it means just one thing: March Madness!
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| | your profession, your family, or as in my
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| The collegiate tradition is upon us.
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| | case, in basketball, from religion." ~
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| Many will continue to watch, even if
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| | John Woodel
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| their team has been eliminated just for
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| | 11) "Good, better, best. Never let it
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| the drama and excitement. This leads to
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| | rest. Until your good is better and your
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| great highlights and marvelous basketball
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| | better is best." ~ Tim Duncan
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| quotes.
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| | 12) "Sometimes a player's greatest
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| Every year there seems to be a
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| | challenge is coming to grips with his
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| "Cinderella" team that the whole country
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| | role on the team" ~ Scottie Pippen
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| cheers for. The atmosphere is wild and
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| | 13) "There are really only two plays:
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| makes for some memorable moments.
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| | Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball
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| Here are some of our favorite basketball
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| | in the basket." ~ Abe Lemons
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| quotes:
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| | 14) "Basketball is a game that gives you
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| 1) "We can't win at home and we can't win
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| | every chance to be great, and puts every
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| on the road. My problem as general
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| | pressure on you to prove that you haven't
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| manager is I can't think of another place
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| | got what it takes. It never takes away
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| to play." ~ Pat Williams
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| | the chance, and it never eases up on the
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| 2) "The rule was "No autopsy, no foul."
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| | pressure." ~ Coach Bob Sundvold
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| ~ Stewart Granger
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| | 15) "My responsibility is getting all my
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| 3) "When I dunk, I put something on it.
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| | players playing for the name on the front
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| I want the ball to hit the floor before I
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| | of the jersey, not the one on the back."
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| do." ~ Darryl Dawkins
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| | ~ Author Unknown
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| 4) "The secret is to have eight great
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| | 16) "The idea is not to block every shot.
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| players and four others who will cheer
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| | The idea is to make your opponent
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| like crazy." ~ Jerry Tarkanian
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| | believe that you might block every shot."
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| 5) "The invention of basketball was not
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| | ~ Bill Russell
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| an accident. It was developed to meet a
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| | 17) "Basketball is the MTV of sports." ~
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| need. Those boys simply would not play
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| | Sara Levinson
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| "Drop the Handkerchief." ~ James Naismith
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| | 18) "When I went to Catholic high school
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| 6) "Basketball is like war in that
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| | in Philadelphia, we just had one coach
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| offensive weapons are developed first,
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| | for football and basketball. He took all
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| and it always takes a while for the
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| | of us who turned out and had us run
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| defense to catch up." ~ Red Auerbach
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| | through a forest. The ones who ran into
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| 7) "If I weren't earning $3 million a
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| | the trees were on the football team." ~
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| year to dunk a basketball, most people on
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| | George Raveling
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| the street would run in the other
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| | 19) "You can run a lot of plays when your
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| direction if they saw me coming." ~
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| | X is twice as big as the other guys' O.
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| Charles Barkley
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| | It makes your X's and O's pretty good."
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| 8) "If you are going to take it to the
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| | ~Paul Westphal
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| bank, then you better cash it in." ~
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| | Hope you found a little humor in the
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| Shannon Fish
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| | basketball quotes. Go, cheer on your
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| 9) "When it's played the way is spozed to
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| | favorite team, and may the best team win!
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| be played, basketball happens in the air;
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| | For more sports quotes, check out the
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| floor, levitating the way oppressed
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| | Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations.com, a
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| peoples of this earth imagine themselves
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| | website that specializes in 'Top 10'
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| in their dreams." ~ John Edgar Wideman
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| | lists of quotations in dozens of
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| 10) "It is most difficult, in my mind, to
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