"I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever."
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"We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened."
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"I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers."
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"There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before."
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"I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer."
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"When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat."
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"In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too."
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"Basketball has taught me that no matter how unlikely something is, if you set a goal, and follow after that goal with all your heart, anything is possible."
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"Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today."
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"Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate."
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"College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge."
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"Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community by the end of our lease in 2010 without subsidization."
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"I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful."
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"I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep."
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"When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly."
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"We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch."
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"In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals."
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"We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness."
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"It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments."
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"It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions."
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