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“I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'”

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Author:Tony Dorsett

“Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.”

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Author:Dwyane Wade

“Any time you do an Adam Sandler film, it's kind of like a boys' club, because you're hanging out and there are guitars around, and basketballs and footballs and electric bikes and scooters and different people dropping by.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.”

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Author:Ira Glass

“In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.”

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Author:Paul Beatty

“My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“I'm a mama's boy above all.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.”

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Author:Dennis Rodman

“My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.”

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Author:Chris Brown

“I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"”

Source: Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think

“Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.”

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Author:Bear Bryant

“The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.”

Source: Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

“There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.”

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Author:Bear Bryant

“But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.”

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Book:Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

Source: Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

“If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.”

“Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan