"When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'"
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"I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can."
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"For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us."
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"I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14."
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"Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm."
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"The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing."
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"Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?"
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"The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers."
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"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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"We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared."
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"I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But as far as playing basketball or anything high impact, it's probably not smart for me to do."
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"I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot."
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"Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then."
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"Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed."
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"I put a basketball in front of George Clooney's door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out."
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"I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do."
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"If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it."
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"If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect."
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"Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it."
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"We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk."
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