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"We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points."
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"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."
"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to."
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
"Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing."
"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."
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"It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball."
"With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."
"They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic."
"I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight."
"You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars."
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