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"Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day."

"Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students."

"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"

"My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl."

"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."

"My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional."

"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
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"Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could."

"I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college."

"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."

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

"They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time."

"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."

"The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that."

"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"

"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
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