"I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him."
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"I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court."
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"I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it."
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"I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here."
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"On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick."
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"You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think."
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"You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball."
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"There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics. Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support."
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"You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos"
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"They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them"
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"Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game."
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"The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it."
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"People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all."
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"Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real."
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"Basketball isn't my job."
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"I am privileged to have played basketball."
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"I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world."
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"It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever."
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"To be honest with you, I (would) much rather play basketball and not be famous."
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"It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere."
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