Basketball

Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end.

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Quotes Tagged “Basketball”

“ Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity. ”
― Arnold Henry

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“ [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" (One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.) ...more ”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

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