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"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
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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."

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"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 played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out."

"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."

"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."

"Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball."

"The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine."

"So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way."
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"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."

"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
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