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"With me and basketball, it became part of me."
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"It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough."
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"I always wanted to be a basketball player."
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"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
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"I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger."
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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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"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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"If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot."
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"I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot."
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"Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years."
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"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
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"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."
Positive
"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one."
Imagination
"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
"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
Leadership
"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."
Opportunity
"I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with."
Time
"I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody."
Lie
"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions."
Truth
"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now."
Failure
"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."
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