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“A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.”

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Author:John Wooden

“They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.”

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Author:Dean Smith

“I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.”

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Author:Dean Smith

“Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.”

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Author:Antonio Gates

“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.”

“While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?”

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Book:Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire who Lives Next Door

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“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

“Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.”

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Author:Hubie Brown

“Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.”

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Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.”

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Author:Ralph Miller

“The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.”

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Author:John Wooden

“I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant