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.
LARRY BIRDWhen it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
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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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My name’s been on this check for a week now.
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I like being by myself.
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I wanted to compete at the highest level again – and that’s the NBA.
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When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, ’cause that was the best game. And these guys, they’d let me play. And they were black guys.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use.
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As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
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I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
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You’ve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
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But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
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