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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."

"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."

"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations."

"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur."

"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."
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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."

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

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

"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."

"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!"

"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."

"I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play."

"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."

"Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game."
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