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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. — Jerry West

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball. — Jerry West

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone ... than I ever have before. — Ben Folds

I can't even imagine what it's like to run for 5 or 6 hours. — Bill Rodgers

I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually. — Jerry West

I've never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich — Jerry West

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. — Jack Welch

You will discover all that pertains to life by reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all! — Tina Sequeira

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave. — Jerry West

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team. — Jerry West

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. — Jerry West

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport. — Jerry West

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. — Jerry West

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise. — Jerry West

I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another. — Jerry West

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. — Jerry West

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year. — Jerry West

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them. — Jerry West

He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West! — Pat Riley

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. — Jerry West

There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability. — Jerry West

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does. — Jerry West

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it ... — Jerry West

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter. — Marvin Bell

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking. — Jerry West

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. — Federico Fellini

He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect. — Saint Francis De Sales

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit. — Jerry West

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication — Jerry West

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league. — Jerry West

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out — Jerry West

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. — Jerry West

I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around. — Jerry West

The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved. — Jerry West

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were. — Jerry West

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. — Jerry West

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party. — Kesha Rogers

With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready. — Arthur Conan Doyle