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"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community."

"Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else."

"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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"Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros."

"And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit."

"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."

"As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years."

"I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb."
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