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“I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.”

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As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

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Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

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I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the 'Star Spangled Banner,' even today - and…

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I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so…

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You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely…

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“Suddenly Sue shrieked as only four-year-old girls can.”

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The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a…

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I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

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Some guys lay their fannies out there every night - they play the game at such a high level, and they give so much…

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You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

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Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention…

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You get so addicted to winning that you don't want that feeling to stop.

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There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

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I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing…

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It's not how big you are, it's how big you play

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Basketball isn't just a sport to me ; it's my ecstasy !

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It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of…

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If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach…

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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is…

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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas…

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Practice to beat the best.

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