What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
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