"It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?"
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"Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better"
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"My team name is the Duchess of Douchecockery.Yep, that's mine."
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"I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game."
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"We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had]."
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"I have a very small team by choice, because I don't believe in teams of 55,000 people."
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"I really appreciate it when people say "no" to me. I want people to understand that I'm totally supportive of what it is they're trying to do as long as we're all on the same team."
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"D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team."
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"I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to this city and what our team means to the city... but I don't get caught up into it. I just go out and play my game. I try to lead the best way I can, and if I can put my team and this franchise in a position to win the title, I'm grateful for that."
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"I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize."
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"You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game."
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"I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things."
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"He reminds me of Michael Jordan. "You look and they have similar games where they want to lead their team to victory, no matter if they have to shoot the ball every time or if they have to rebound or pass, they're going to find a way to win." I've always said that Kobe Bryant is the best scorer in our game today and he's definitely proving himself."
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"A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots."
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"Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game."
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"It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor."
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"I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game."
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"That team across the way, you tip your hat to them. They did a great job. It showed in these Finals."
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"I've been watching basketball for a long time, I'm a historian of the game. I don't know any other team that's gotten to the Finals without two All-Stars... I cannot remember thinking of it. I don't even know if it's ever happened, for a team to lose two All-Stars and still be able to make it to the Finals."
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"That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets."
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