A simple colorful design for 2009 wall calender that displays a wonderfull sunset illustration. Print or save to your desktop , actual size
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~ Bill Vaughn
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.~ James Naismith
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ~ Red Auerbach
Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.~ Dan Frisby
Basketball is the MTV of sports.~ Sara Levinson
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass. ~ George Raveling
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.~ Tim Duncan
If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life. ~ Isiah Thomas
If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.~ Charles Barkley
If you are going to take it to the bank, then you better cash it in.~ Shannon Fish
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ~ Phil Jackson
I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.~ Shaquille O’Neal
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.~ John Wooden
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan
I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~Dave Barry
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet. ~Tom Tolbert
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.~ John Wooden
Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. ~Ogden Nash
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. ~ Bill Russell
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play “Drop the Handkerchief.” ~ James Naismith
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not. ~ Charles Barkley
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. ~ Jerry Tarkanian
These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it. ~ Basketbat Quotes
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.Earvin Johnson
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.~ Wilt Chamberlain
Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.~ Scottie Pippen
We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors. ~ Weldon Drew
What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? ~ Woody Allen
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~ Darryl Dawkins
When it’s played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams. ~John Edgar Wideman
You don’t play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball. ~ Bobby Knight
Advice is a stranger; if he’s welcome he stays for the night; if not, he leaves the same day.~ Malagasy Proverb
A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Better a devil you know than a hundred strangers.~ South American Proverb
Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family.~ Ethiopian Proverb
Dear God: You do such wonderful things for complete strangers; why not for me?.~ Yiddish Proverb
Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing.~ Spanish Proverb
I against my brother. My brother and I against our cousin. My brother, my cousin and I against the neighbors. All of us against the stranger.~ Bedouin Proverb
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.~ Maya Angelou
It’s all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he’s perfect.~ Mae West
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
May good luck be your friend in whatever you do and may trouble be always a stranger to you.~ Irish Blessings
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.~ Arthur Miller
Pity the stranger, even if he is rich.~ Yemeni Proverb
The day your horse dies and your money’s gone, your relatives change into strangers.~ Chinese Proverb
There are three things that have to be done quickly: burying the dead, opening the door for a stranger, and fixing your daughter’s wedding.~ Iranian Proverb
The hand of the stranger is heavy.~ Basque Proverb
The house is our father’s and the strangers came to kick us out.~ Palestinian Proverb
The stranger has big eyes but he doesn’t see anything.~ Ivorian Proverb
The tears of strangers are only water.~ Russian Proverb
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.~ Author Unknown
Truth is stranger than fiction.~ Traditional Proverb
You have a lot of friends if you have money; otherwise there are only strangers.~ Nepalese Proverb
You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.~ Croatian Proverb