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“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.”

“The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.”

“One man cannot make a team.”

“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.”

“The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.”

“Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.”

“A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.”

“If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.”

“Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

“If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.”

“We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.”

“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

“My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.”