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“Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself.”

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Author:LeBron James

“Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.”

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Author:Wilt Chamberlain

“You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.”

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Author:Patrick Ewing

“In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.”

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Author:Don Meyer

“I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.”

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Author:Carmelo Anthony

“If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.”

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Author:Tim Duncan

“I would have loved to play against Bill Russell. He was such a force.”

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Author:Tim Duncan

“I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.”

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Author:Tim Duncan

“It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.”

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Author:Kevin Durant