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"My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics."
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"I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead."
"Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston."
"The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College."
"I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight."
"In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue."
"2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!"
"For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us."
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"Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals."
"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."
"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."
"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."
"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."
"When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly."
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