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“We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy”

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Time doesn't heal, time helps heal and learning helps heal.

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I'm a pizza guy, so yes, I love cheese!

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In 2009 we were pretty good but North Carolina would have beaten some NBA teams that year.

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I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

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There's efforts to win games and there's efforts to win championships.

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Words can't truly express what Mike Garland means to me. We've been friends since we met the first night in college and basically have…

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I want to go to Scotland in particular. If I had a bucket list, that would be on my bucket list.

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If I'm going to be responsible to get blamed for something, I'd like to have the ability to do something about it.

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I've never run from anything in my life, nothing.

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Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that

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It's not my job to judge one of my athletes. Everybody is different. Some are the partying type, some are the studying type, some…

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No comment always means you're hiding something.

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We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

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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 !

Jamira Robinson

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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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