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“Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.”

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Author:Tim Duncan
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“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.”

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Author:Dean Smith
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“I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.”

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Author:Frank Deford
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“We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.”

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Author:Neil Patrick Harris
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“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.”

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Author:Dean Smith
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“I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.”

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Author:Jim Valvano
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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

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Book:They Call Me Coach
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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.”

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Book:Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime
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