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" It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough. "
David Robinson
Africa
Few
Very
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" Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet's. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S. "
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Sweet
" Popovich is always talking about team. "
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Talking
Always
" I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen. "
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" You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp. "
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Three
Team
" You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe. "
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Water
Deep
Personal
" It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong. "
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Brain
Always
Athlete
" The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are. "
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You
Team
" It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct. "
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Learning
People
" I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve. "
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Things
Learn
" It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay. "
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Room
Playoffs
" When all else fails, trust God. "
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Trust
When All Else Fails
" All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people. "
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You
Positive
Own
" It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short. "
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You
Year
" Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same. "
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War
World
Hero
" I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy. "
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Games
Without
Only
" When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million. "
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Start
Million
Thinking
" My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that. "
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Best
Faith
Mother
" A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart. "
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Been
Heart
Education
" Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal. "
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Service
Experience
Great
" I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing. "
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Like
Men
Think
" What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive. "
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Job
Build
Family
" Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions. "
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Character
You
Will
" If you forget your history, you forget who you are. "
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Forget
Who
You
" The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever. "
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Memories
You
Last
" If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things. "
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Me
Better
Care
" Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.' "
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Feel
Care
" You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking. "
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Lesson
Need
" When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that. "
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Floor
Everybody
Best
" Michael, to me, he was an assassin. He was one of those guys that prepared himself extremely well and was relentless in his attacking. And there are a few guys who have that mentality. I think Kobe Bryant has that type of mentality, and LeBron has that type of mentality. "
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Assassin
Me
Relentless