"Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet."
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"I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating"
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"Basketball isn't just about the bright lights, packed arenas and highlight reels. Basketball is a way of life. Basketball is a relationship between you and the ball, you and your teammates. If you love the game, nobody can take that from you."
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"There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail"
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"Suddenly all is quiet. The other nine players? They're all moving in slow motion! I'm at normal speed! I know where everyone's going even before they know themselves. The basket is huge, maybe six feet across! How can I miss? It's like throwing a rock into a pond."
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"Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball."
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"I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball."
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"I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era."
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"If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it."
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"If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing."
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"People say they wish they were Michael Jordan. OK, do it for a year. Do it for two years. Do it for five years. When you get past the fun part, then go do the part where you get into cities at three a.m. and you have fifteen people waiting for autographs when you're as tired as hell."
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"I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college."
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"I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything."
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"You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone."
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"I wasn't really a work conscious type of person."
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"I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life."
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"Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization."
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"I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that."
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"You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you."
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"Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, … Driven From Within."
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