Ricky Rubio

I know where my weaknesses are. I am not as athletic as other point guards in the league. I can't dunk over people. Maybe I'm not a good shooter, or whatever they say. But I know my strengths and that is helping my team to win by knowing exactly every moment what to do.

Spanish Basketball Player

Ben Silbermann

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

American Businessman

Shawn Kemp

When I was younger, I used to dunk and they criticized me for the dunk. They said I couldn't be an All-Star because I dunked too much. So in order to get the respect from the people, I felt like I had to change my game.

American Athlete

Jason Whitlock

I apologize for being the voice of reason here, but this sports fan has almost zero interest in seeing women dunk a basketball. It's a nice little novelty act that has a very short life span.

American Journalist

J. J. Redick

Obviously, you look at a situation and you say, 'What do I need to do to fit in?' I looked at the Clippers and said, 'I really need to work on my dunk shots.

Willie Geist

I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first responder to get down from the rim.

Gerald Green

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

Willie Cauley-Stein

I don't wanna be labeled as just a defensive player or a rim protector or someone who can dunk. I feel like I can do everything.

Charles Barkley

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

American Baseball Player

JaVale McGee

I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.

Emphasizes sudden immersion, usually followed by immediate removal from the liquid.

Quick Action

Often used with foods that are dipped in beverages, like cookies in milk.

Food Pairings

Dunking suggests brief immersion, not leaving something in liquid for long.

Not Submerge

A display of athleticism and height, associated with power and excitement in basketball.

Athletic Skill

Specific to basketball and understood among players and fans of the sport.

Basketball Jargon

In basketball, considered a highlight move that often excites spectators.

Impressive Feat

 one of the items in it was the hydrophobic sand -- the sand that doesn't get wet. He said that he was playing with it with his son. And you know, his son was mesmerized, because he would dunk it in the water, he would take it out and it was bone dry. A few weeks later, he said that his son was playing with a lock of his mother's hair, and he noticed

Keith Schacht & Zach...

 It must have looked completely ridiculous. When I tell people about using photographic plates to study the universe, it does sound ridiculous. It's a little absurd to take what seems like a primitive tool for studying the universe and say, well, we're going to dunk this in lemon juice, lick it,

A stellar history of...

 Helping this along is your leavening agent, sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. The sodium bicarbonate reacts with acids in the dough to create carbon dioxide gas, which makes airy pockets in your cookie. Now, it's nearly ready for a refreshing dunk in a cool glass of milk.

The chemistry of cookies...

 said yes you boil it that and hippo dunk you can boil it and drink the tea and that will make your stomach feel better if you've got a nasty stomach a fantasy very useful for that and then we got chatting and he said well you know hippo

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 multiplied by how many seconds it's been in the air, plus half of the gravitational acceleration multiplied by the square of the number of seconds spent in the air. Now we can use this equation to model MJ's free throw dunk.

The math behind Michael...

 Summer vacations often consisted of my father trying to heal me, so I drank deer's milk, I had hot cups on my back, I was dunked in the Dead Sea, and I remember the water burning my eyes

I got 99 problems......

 You dunk it in the river. Because it has to end. And next year, she will come back. What goes around always comes around, and this rule applies not just to man, but also the gods.

East vs west -- the...

 just like a cheetah that was pretty quick dunk what kind of speeds will be clocking there cuz we've just a bit overtaken him so yeah he's certainly

Cheetah vs Greyhound...

 but this little cub's just not having it so in the end there's nothing for it but to just pick him up and dunk him in the water

Adorable Baby Animal...

 it so in the end there's nothing for it such as just pick him up and dunk him in the water