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"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball."
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"I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do."
"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
"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 isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
"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."
"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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"I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important."
"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."
"The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn."
"After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind."
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