Crossover Kwame Alexander Quotes

Basketball Rule #1 In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. No matter how good you are, no matter how down you get, always leave your heart on the court.

Basketball rule #3 Never let anyone lower your goals. Others’ expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

Basketball Rule #4 If you miss enough of life's free throws you will pay in the end.

Basketball Rule #5 When you stop playing your game you've already lost.

Basketball Rule #10 A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.

Basketball Rule #6 A great team has a good scorer with a teammate who's on point and ready to assist.

Basketball Rule #2 (random text from Dad) Hustle dig Grind push Run fast Change pivot Chase pull Aim shoot Work smart Live smarter Play hard Practice harder

Basketball Rule #7 Rebounding is the art of anticipating, of always being prepared to grab it. But you can't drop the ball.

The poems were cool. The best ones were like bombs, and when all the right words came together it was like an explosion.

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined my their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun, and you will shine.

I think being an adult must be confusing as hell.

Books are fun, Nicholas, he says, they're like amusement parks for readers. Yeah, well, maybe they would be fun if I got to pick the rides sometimes, you answer

Own the sadness, don’t let it own you.

In this life, rain’s gonna fall, but the sun will shine again,

Basketball Rule #9 When the game is on the line, don't fear. Grab the ball. Take it to the hoop.

tricks are for kids,

Basketball Rule #8 Sometimes you have to lean back a little and fade away to get the best shot.

...it's just one miss, but you're gonna have a whole lotta makes in this life, 'cause you're just that good, and it's okay to be down and upset as long as you're not down and out

Sometimes it’s the things that aren’t said that kill you.

He's no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to.

Sometimes it's the things that aren't said that kill you" -Josh

Did y’all arrest Uncle Bob’s turkey? It was just criminal what he did to that bird, wasn’t it? You

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life.

It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

You love me? Like summer loves short nights.   Get a checkup, then. Only cure I need is you.   I’m serious about this, Chuck. Only doctor I need is Dr. Crystal Bell. Now come here . . .   And then there is silence, so I put the pillow over my head because when they stop talking,   I know what that means. Uggghh!

In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. No matter how good you are, no matter how down you get, always leave your heart on the court.

Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

Silence doesn’t mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.

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It's just hard to love someone who cancels the cable right before the Walking Dead marathon.

When you stop playing your game you’ve already lost.

Bullies don’t like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.

Don’t you see I need to be here so they can fix the damage that’s been done to my heart? Who’s gonna fix the damage that’s been done to mine?

is a MYTHical MANchild Of rather dubious distinction Always AGITATING COMBINATING and ELEVATING his game He dribbles fakes then takes the ROCK to the glass, fast, and on BLAST But watch out when he shoots or you’ll get SCHOOLed FOOLed UNCOOLed ’Cause when FILTHY gets hot He has a SLAMMERIFIC SHOT It’s Dunkalicious CLASSY Supersonic SASSY and D O W N right in your face mcNASTY

You know, Chuck, You're not always gonna swish. You gonna miss some. Heck, you gonna miss a lot. That's the way the rel world works. But you gotta grab the ball and keep shooting. You understand? I tell you what, though, you'll make a lot more than you miss if you're not always going for the flash and flair.

Boys with no self-control become men behind bars" -Crystal

Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.

If you miss enough of life's free throws, you will pay in the end.

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others’ expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life.

Because it turns out forever is like the mall—right around the corner.

When the game is on the line, don’t fear. Grab the ball. Take it to the hoop.

Basketball rule #3 Never let anyone lower your goals Other's expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is the limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun And you _will_ shine.

Do they even have soccer in Kentucky?

this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. No matter how good you are, no matter how down you get, always leave your heart on the court.

it’s just one miss, but you’re gonna have a whole lotta makes in this life, ’cause you’re just that good, and it’s okay to be down and upset as long as you’re not down and out.

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Sometimes you have to lean back a little and fade away to get the best shot.

I guess you Da Man now, Filthy, JB says. And for the first time in my life I don’t want to be. I bet the dishes you miss number fifty, he says, walking away. Where’s he going? Hey, I shout. We Da Man. And when he turns around I toss him the ball. He dribbles back to the top of the key, fixes his eyes on the goal. I watch the ball leave his hands like a bird up high, skating the sky, crossing over us.

All because your bike got stolen and you lost your cool one night and then posted that you needed someone to intervene between you and the monsters and your cousin Julie told your aunt who called your dad who texted Mom who drove all night and scheduled an appointment with St. Nick who thinks your post was a cry for help when actually you were just listening to Eminem and thought the song was kinda nice

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Thought It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

If you miss enough of life’s free throws you will pay in the end.