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You Know What I Think? Very Few People Play Because They Love The Game. Most Of Them Play Because They Make Good Money. They Keep Playing Because Of The Money. I Could Care Less About It. If I Don't Love The Game, No Check Is Going To Keep Me Playing.

Maybe It’s My Own Fault. Maybe I Led You To Believe It Was Easy When It Wasn’t. Maybe I Made You Think My Highlights Started At The Free Throw Line, And Not In The Gym. Maybe I Made You Think That Every Shot I Took Was A Game Winner. That My Game Was Built On Flash, And Not Fire. Maybe It’s My Fault That You Didn’t See That Failure Gave Me Strength; That My Pain Was My Motivation. Maybe I Led You To Believe That Basketball Was A God Given Gift, And Not Something I Worked For Every Single Day Of My Life. Maybe I Destroyed The Game. Or Maybe You’re Just Making Excuses.

Winners Don't Just Learn The Fundamentals, They Master Them. You Have To Monitor Your Fundamentals Constantly Because The Only Thing That Changes Will Be Your Attention To Them.

There Are No Shortcuts. I Approached Practices The Same Way I Approached Games. You Can't Turn It On And Off Like A Faucet. I Couldn't Dog It During Practice And Then, When I Needed That Extra Push Late In The Game, Expect It To Be There. Very Few People Get Anywhere By Taking Shortcuts.

I Set Another Goal, A Reasonable, Manageable Goal That I Could Realistically Achieve If I Worked Hard Enough. I Approached Everything Step By Step.