Pete Maravich quotes
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“Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!”
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“There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.”
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“They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.”
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“I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.”
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“I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.”
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“If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.”
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“It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.”
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“My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.”
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“I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.”
-- Pete Maravich
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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“It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.”
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Source : "20 famous college commencement speeches" by Mo Elinzano, www.deseretnews.com. May 6, 2015.
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