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People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine.

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Moses Malone
Age: 60 †
Born: 1955
Born: March 23
Died: 2015
Died: September 13
Basketball Player
Petersburg
Virginia
Moses Eugene Malone
Chairman of the Boards
Big Mo
Mo Malone
Mumbles Malone
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Friends
Stuff
Cocaine
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Mad
Next
Mess
Might
Ten
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I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.
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When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.
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Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.
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I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.
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Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them I just talk to the players.
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I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.
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I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.
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I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine it's not for me.
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I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.
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I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.
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When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.
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I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.
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I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.
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I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
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