Basketball Champion Quotes & Sayings

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best! — Kevin Durant

I want to be a champion. — Kevin Durant

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad. — Erin O'Connor

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic. — Grace Jones

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day. — Tina Fey

It may also be that, quite apart from any specific references one food makes to another, it is the very allusiveness of cooked food that appeals to us, as indeed that same quality does in poetry or music or art. We gravitate towards complexity and metaphor, it seems, and putting fire to meat or fermenting fruit and grain, gives us both: more sheer sensory information and, specifically, sensory information that, like metaphor, points away from the here and now. This sensory metaphor - this stands for that - is one of the most important transformations of nature wrought by cooking. And so a piece of crisped pig skin becomes a densely allusive poem of flavors: coffee and chocolate, smoke and Scotch and overripe fruit and, too, the sweet-salty-woodsy taste of maple syrup on bacon I loved as a child. As with so many other things, we humans seem to like our food overdetermined. — Michael Pollan

I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in. — Julius Erving

Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living. — Elizabeth Lesser

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility — Immanuel Kant

If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it. — Russell Hannon

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man. — Nikola Tesla

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. — Walter Lippmann

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. — Susan Collins

Champions have no off-season. — Dan Bailey

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game. — LeBron James

Champions behave like champions before they are champions — Bill Walsh

That's the good thing about hanging with bloggers. Most of them are kind of fucked up in the same way you are. — Jenny Lawson

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love. — Julie Johnson

They say some people ' cast a thin shadow', a turn of phrase that fitted my father like a glove. Too weak, too kind, he couldn't even say goodbye to my mother and me when he left. Weak and pathetic, pathetic and sad - that Dad. — Rika Yokomori

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing. — Ramakrishna

I know something now I didn't know a year ago," said Quoyle. "Petal wasn't any good. And I think maybe that is why I loved her."
"Yes," said Wavey. "Same with Herold. It's like you feel to yourself that's all you deserve. And the worse it gets the more it seems true, that you got it coming to you or it wouldn't be that way. You know what I mean? — Annie Proulx