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People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.
Steve Nash
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Steve Nash
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 7
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
Stephen John Nash
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