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"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."
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"Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community."
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"It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams."
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"If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun."
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"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
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"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."
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"I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball."
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"I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger."
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"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."
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"Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else."
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"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."
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"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
Responsibility
"First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity."
Time
"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."
Opportunity
"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
Positive
"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
Leadership
"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it."
Love
"I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it."
Family
"My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles."
Time
"The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits."
Love
"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."
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