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.

• The game of basketball is one of the greatest teachers of life there is. It teaches you first and foremost to believe in yourself. You must develop physical and mental toughness in order to succeed because there's going to be many disappointments and setbacks along the way. You learn quickly that basketball is a team game.You must be unselfish and accept the role that helps the team the most. Basketball teaches you the importance of setting high standards and never accepting anything other than your best effort.
  • Tom Crean, Foreword toWinning Basketball : Techniques and Drills for Playing Better Offensive Basketball (2004) by Ralph L. Pim

• The 2017 averagesalary for aWNBAathlete is about $51,000, while theNBA salary is $6 million. The WNBA’s highest paid player isCandace Parker, with around $3 million in salary and endorsements. In the NBA, the highest paid player isStephen Curry making at $34 million.
  • Imani Farmer,"Why are female athletes paid less than male athletes?”, Spartan News Room, Michigan State University, (December 18, 2017).

• TVnetworks are just not going to pay as much to coverWNBAgames as they’re going to pay to coverNBA games. So where is the WNBA going to get the revenue to pay those equal kind of salaries? So I think in something like basketball it’s very unlikely.
  • Ronald Fisher,"Why are female athletes paid less than male athletes?”, Spartan News Room, Michigan State University, (December 18, 2017).

• I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career.
  I've lost almost 300 games.
  26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
  I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
  And that is why I succeed.
  • Michael Jordan, as quoted inNike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh (1998), by Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, p. 49

• What's there to be happy about? Job's not finished.KobeBryant, Job's not finished answered during Los Angeles Lakers post game interview after winning Orlando Magic 2-0 in the 2009NBA finals (June 2009)
• I don’t missbasketball. I live very well, thankGod. I have my interests, interests inagriculture.
  • Darko Miličić, as quoted in"Storyline: Whatever Happened to Darko Milicic" (21 March 2016),HoopsHype

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