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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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"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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"I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger."
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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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"Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years."
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"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."
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"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."
Imagination
"In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure."
Thought
"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."
Failure
"My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles."
Time
"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it."
Love
"Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."
Ego
"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."
Responsibility
"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."
Being
"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
Positive
"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions."
Truth
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