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“I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end.”

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Author:Mark Jackson

“Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.”

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Author:Doug Collins

“To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.”

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Author:LeBron James

“When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.””

“The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

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“Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.”

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Author:Magic Johnson

“They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.”

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Author:Red Auerbach

“Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.”

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Author:Don Meyer

“Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.”

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Author:Kelvin Sampson

“Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.”

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Author:LeBron James

“My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“I want to be one of the best players in the game.”

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Author:Kevin Durant