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Arundhati Roy basketball player successful I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship Aselin Debison basketball dream winning Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love. Ashley Graham basketball made firsts I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn't get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball. Ashley Graham team hard-work basketball College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge. Ashley Graham basketball college challenges Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate. Ashley Graham impact basketball games Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today. Ashley Graham shapes skills basketball Basketball has taught me that no matter how unlikely something is, if you set a goal, and follow after that goal with all your heart, anything is possible. Ashley Graham basketball goal heart And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one. Ashley Judd kentucky basketball wind I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is. Atsushi basketball shows sports I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my health. ... I was really healthy. But I tried to do my part in terms of preparation, in terms of perseverance. I tried to do my part to make sure that I was always ready to play and try to stay ahead of the game. I tried to beat people with my mind. I wasn't the biggest or the one that jumped the highest, but I had a real high basketball IQ and I knew it. ... I was a student of game and tried to prepare and be professional and have a good attitude. All of those things helped me have a long career. Avery Johnson perseverance basketball attitude People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good. Avery Johnson basketball jobs son There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty. Ayana Mathis basketball athlete country Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. B. C. 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