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It was not something Jordan articulated. As he often explained, he wasn’t much of a rah-rah type. More, he played all out, and insisted on the same from his teammates, as Pinckney had described on the Pan Am team. Often he could motivate them with a mere frown.
Roland Lazenby • Michael Jordan: The Life
grahamduncan.blog • What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog
Red accused me of being stubborn and willful—which he knew I was anyway—and wanted to know why, why I wanted to shun such an honor from the fans. Because I never played for the fans, I explained, I played for myself and for my team. I told Red I felt honored to have my number retired but that was something I could in good conscience only do with my
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He was supposed to be the best, a master PUA who specialized in bisexual women. His garish style of dress, like that of a Vegas lounge lizard, was one of the inspirations for Mystery’s peacock theory. Rick H. was short, slightly stocky, and dressed in a large-collared shirt and a red blazer. Trailing behind him were six attraction adepts eager to s
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The visceral pleasure of solving tough flight-related problems was one Johnson continued to seek in his retirement. In his autobiography, he writes that he often entertained himself while doing laps in his pool by asking, “How would I make an airplane from scratch?”
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

He not only worked hard on defense, for example, he worked hard on defense when the other team was hopelessly beaten. He did all kinds of things he didn’t have to do simply because those were the dimensions of the game.
John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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At Princeton, Bradley has become such an excellent basketball player that it is necessary to look beyond college basketball to find a standard that will put him in perspective. The standard’s name is Oscar Robertson, of the Cincinnati Royals, who is the finest basketball player yet developed. Robertson, who is known in basketball as The O, stands o
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