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> [The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anna-quindlen/the-1992-us-olympic-basketball-team-is-the-best-sports-team-ever-the/)

[Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anna-quindlen/)

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> [I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil Ford and Mike O'Koren in 1976.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-van-gundy/i-grew-up-dreaming-about-being-an-olympic-basketball-player-doug/)

[Jeff Van Gundy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-van-gundy/)

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