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"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."
"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
"You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore."
"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."
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"
"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."
"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."
"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
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