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"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."
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"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."
"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."
"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
"The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn."
"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."
"I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate."
"I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard."
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"Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game."
"Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could."
"I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college."
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
"When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots."
"I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play."
"But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation."
"They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time."
"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."
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