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"Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress."
"Friendship is a full-time job."
"A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic."
"After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up."
"I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well."
"On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex."
"The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful."
"We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear."
"Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute."
"If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art."
"I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper."
"The only important statistic is the final score."
"The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand."
"The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace."
"My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work."
"We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough."
"What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times."
"Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!"
"We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world."
"The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made."