"You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white."
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"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"
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"X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do"
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"The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions"
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"The game honors toughness"
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"Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too."
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"I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are."
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"People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while."
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"People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me."
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"He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard."
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"I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game."
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"When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA."
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"Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute."
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"Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them"
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"Failure makes me work even harder."
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"The key to success is failure"
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"Not a game, not a game... practice."
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"In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat."
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"In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown."
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"I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance."
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