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I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

Jerry West

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Jerry West
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: May 28
Basketball Coach
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West Virginia
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To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
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I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.
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When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
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I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.
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The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.
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You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.
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The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.
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Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out
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I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.
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Anything can happen with hard work and dedication
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I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.
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Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.
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The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.
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Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.
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[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
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To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.
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I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.
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You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.
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I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.
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Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.
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