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"When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball."
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"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas."

"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play."

"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."

"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."

"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."

"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

"Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around."
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