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"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball."
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"I have no desire to coach basketball."
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"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."
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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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"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."
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"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."
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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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"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 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."
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"It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough."
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"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball."
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"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me."
Wonder
"But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever."
Man
"What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?"
Dogs
"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
"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
"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game."
Care
"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
Want
"I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American."
World
"The best players will play. That's the way it will always be."
Sports
"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
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