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"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."

"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."

"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."
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"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game."

"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."

"If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first."

"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end."

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

"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."
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