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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."

"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."

"I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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