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I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn't. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it's just pure, old-fashioned racism.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.

I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

I don’t watch a lot of other basketball away from the gym. But I do look at LeBron’s box score. I want to see how many points, rebounds and assists he had, and how he shot from the field. If he had 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists, I can tell you exactly how he did it, what type of shots he made and who he passed to.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

I don't usually set personal goals.

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.

I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that.

If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

If I continue to just get to the playoffs every year, I guess you could say I arrived, but right now I'm just trying to find my way.

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.