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"When it gets down to it, basketball is 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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"I have no desire to coach basketball."
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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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"For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being."
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"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
Want
"The best players will play. That's the way it will always be."
Sports
"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."
Leadership
"What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?"
Dogs
"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."
Money
"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
Leadership
"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."
Work
"While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course."
Trust
"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."
Family
"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball."
Basketball
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