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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.

Larry Bird

I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.
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What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I think that takes it all. That’s the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.
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It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she’d get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don’t mean she wouldn’t pay the bank, but the children always came first.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer.
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I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it.
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I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
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In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
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I didn’t play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals.
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