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" When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. "

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" Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one. "

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" To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. "

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" If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win. "

" The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed. "

" The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness. "

" When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest. "

" I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts. "

" That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. "

" A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. "

" Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. "

" The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. "

" I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody. "

" First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. "

" Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. "

" You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. "

" The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team. "

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" It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are. "

" Leadership is an ever-evolving position. "

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" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

" I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. "

" I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport. "

" Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters. "

" With me and basketball, it became part of me. "

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" Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. "

" There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves. "

" The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits. "

" I always wanted to teach. "

" I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears. "

" Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable. "