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• ‟ I like to keep people guessing.

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• ‟ We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

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• ‟ I hated to miss games... at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to... just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

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• ‟ Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.

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• ‟ I enjoy winning, but more importantly, I enjoy the people I'm around.

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• ‟ I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

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• ‟ Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

  - Jerry West