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"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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"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."
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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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"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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"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
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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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"I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you."
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"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."
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"I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger."
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"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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"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."
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"There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves."
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"If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win."
People
"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."
Imagination
"In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure."
Thought
"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
"The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team."
Life
"Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to."
Family
"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
Beauty
"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."
Failure
"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."
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