Sports Quotes and its Success

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Here are the collections of some sports quotes that we've always seen during the live interviews after of each games. Mostly read also in all leading newspapers world wide. These motivational quotes from successful players are their ways of how to determine their goals of winning their chosen category in sports.

"Pain is temporary" but being determined and to win is a great history .

TWO GIANTS MEETS in ONE RING

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Two giants from different side of world sport meets in one place to celebrate and fight each other.If we imagine this scene in real life what would happen next? I mean if they will truly fights each other. Shaquille O'Neil as a giant on basketball court and we all know that most wrestler are all giant sizes. Funny show I want to share to those who did seen yet this video.Enjoy watching guys......and have fun!

First ISRAELI to play on NBA

(image by AP@JP) OMRI CASSPI was one of the lucky who was selected by the SACRAMENTO KINGS in last month 23rd selection draft.He is become the first Israeli set to play on NBA. Here in his home team preparing for EuroBASKET tournament this coming September has a shaky problems with some teammates that resulted to boycotted the Sunday's training sessions.Monday's meeting with his coach Tzvika Sherf said he will not be playing the EuroBasket tournaments.

"There's no chance I will join the national team in training before August 20 and we agreed to speak again later. However, at the moment it seems as though I won't be joining the team at all.

"I need to make some difficult decisions because I'm facing a critical year in my career. I want to play for the team, although it is difficult to see it happening."

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NBA's BEST PLAY'S of 2009

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I was smiling when I found this video on YouTube.I'm sure when you watched all of these games you smiled too and remembered everything.Left hands/right hand dunks & dunks , steals , free throws, three pointers long shots,lay ups, etc., it was all amazing games. Sometimes while I'm watching those games I'm closing my eyes, lol. especially if O'Neil driving the ball . Any players stopped on his way to the goal , will surely splashed to the floor.Kobe's covering his face while smiling was the nicest image to viewers, right? That's one great gestures in sporting world.It's so funny that when the audiences in that stadium cheering ,shouting every time when there was goals and I'm doing it too. Huh! but I'm alone watching in front of TV, hehehe.Watching sports was my one way of escaping my stresses for the whole day's work.

NORMAN BLACK in PBA

PBA - PHILIPPINE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

This is the basketball player that I'll never forget until my last breath.My husband was an avid fan since he landed in the Philippines way back 1991. I was pregnant at that time when hubby don't mind my demand if there was a game. He used to answer me always that Norman Black in today's game.Without my knowledge he planned to have name after this player of our incoming  baby if it is a boy.So he was very frustrated when my eldest daughter came out. No words, no blames but I felt that way. After five years we made again another one  , he's prayer's was answered this time  and there's no other names just NORMAN that came from Norman Black- the PBA player.

We filipinos are not just familiar but idolized this former player in high school basketball of Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore where he graduated in 1975. He then played for Saint Joseph's College in Pennsylvania from 1975-1979, averaging 17 points per game in his playing career.He also played in Continental Basketball Association from 1978-1982 for the Lancaster Red Roses and the Philadelphia Kings.He also played for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association, but played only three games in the 1980-81 season, averaging 2.7 points per game.

Black made a legendary name in terms of sports in the Philippines from an import forward to coaching and even TV anchor commentator, guest english analyst of a certain games, advertisements as product indorser until year 2007. He was seen every Sunday on the halftime segment "Black's Board" where he dished out the week's highlights around the league and Philippine basketball as well. Checked WIKIPEDIA for more on this stories. A short clips of his bio-data below:

Norman Black - Forward 

Born: November 12, 1957 
Baltimore, Maryland 
Nationality American 
Height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 
Weight 185 lb (83.9 kg) 
League National Basketball Association, Philippine Basketball Association 
High school Cardinal Gibbons School 
College Saint Joseph's College 
Draft 58th overall 
Pro career 1980–1997 
Former teams Lancaster Red Roses
Philadelphia Kings
Detroit Pistons 1980-1981
Tefilin 1981
San Miguel Beermen 1982, 1989
Great Taste Coffee Makers 1983
Magnolia Quench Plus 1985
Pop Cola 800s 1997 

"THE REV" for Hapoel Jerusalem

ISRAEL's holy city of Jerusalem was a dream of peoples in all walks of life to visits, christians and non-christians wants to step on the holy place anytime of thier lives.To one NBA player and not just a christian but a preacher that his Lord was sent him here not just to play but also a mission to fulfilled.I have seen some games of former chicago bulls player on his screen name "THE REV" and he is now playing and has contract with Hapoel Jerusalem. Let's see how he will play in almost fans are not fully like it.Here is the story of JOSHUA HAHN written in Jerusalem Post when they interviewed him last friday.

Roger Powell Jr , a devout Christian, has served as a preacher in his home state of Illinois.He also heads the Roger Powell Jr. Ministries summer camps, which he runs in Illinois with the aim of developing leadership skills in young athletes through basketball training and Bible studies.

Prior to moving to Israel he was working toward advanced degrees in theology through his church's college, the International College of Excellence. 

But to Hapoel fans and teammates alike, Powell is the basketball pro par excellence, though with a nod to his off-court pursuits, he goes by the nickname, "The Rev." 

"Everybody has been so warm and welcoming. I look on this opportunity to be playing here as a blessing," says Powell, a 26-year-old forward who, in his first season with Hapoel, has helped the Jerusalem team to cement itself into second place in the BSL, averaging 10.1 ppg in 17.7 minutes so far this season. 

Just a few months ago, Powell was out of a job. He was released by the NBA's Chicago Bulls which he had joined in October 2008 but failed to make the final roster. However, he had absolutely no intention of hanging up his sneakers. 

When he was offered a contract in Jerusalem, he jumped at the chance. It wasn't the NBA, true, but to play in Israel's top league, and what's more in Jerusalem, seemed to hold out all sorts of promise. 

Powell stresses that he was attracted to basketball in Israel for many of the same reasons that attract other foreign athletes: The pay is relatively high, Israeli fans are dedicated and energetic, the competition is exceptional and English is widely spoken and understood all over the country. 

In fact, he has found that the training, coaching and play are of a relatively high level. 

Still, to uproot oneself and relocate to a country with a very different lifestyle is always a challenge. And all the more so when the country you're going to often has such a negative image abroad. 

For The Rev and his wife Terra, soon after arriving here any doubts were dismissed. 

The transition to living and playing basketball in Israel has been "extremely smooth - the smoothest of all our transitions" since back in 2005, when Powell graduated from the University of Illinois. 

That's partly because he's familiar with Jewish culture, traditions and holidays. From adolescence to his time in college, Powell has always had Jewish friends. Many of these friends put him in contact with their families and friends living in Israel. 

And true to Israeli hospitality, many have entertained Powell and his wife at their homes for Shabbat dinner. 

The Powells' stay in Jerusalem also provides plenty of spare time to further develop their true passion - community activism. 

Terra, who helps administer the Roger Powell Jr. Ministries, is busy developing programs for the foundation. 

As a graphic designer, she is also helping to build a Web site and program for the Powells' newest endeavor, Integrity Sports. 

While the Roger Powell Jr. Ministries selects athletes to participate in the summer leadership camp, Integrity Sports will be open to all young athletes looking to develop leadership and life skills. 

It is this extraordinary synergy of a man of God in the city of God that has made Powell's experience with Hapoel Jerusalem all the more fulfilling. 

He calls it an experience that has "helped him grow as a human being" and will, he believes, add much in preparing him for the responsibilities of becoming an ordained minister in the future. 

As Jerusalem is the birthplace of the three major religions, Powell says, "Living in Jerusalem - the focus of three monotheistic religions - has provided me with an overall picture of faith." 
Powell has found that his forays into the city and its holy sites has brought the Bible to life for him. 

You may come, he says, to this magical city for a certain reason, "but you're liable to come away with something completely different altogether, excitingly different."