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"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
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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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"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."
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"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."
People
"I don't think I have ever been out of control."
Control
"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"
Chance
"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."
People
"I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can."
Will
"I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach."
Now
"When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!"
Time
"People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad."
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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."
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