119 Quotes by Jerry West

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

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    You can’t imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

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    I’m just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

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    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...

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    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.

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    Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn’t upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.

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    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.

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    I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I’m around.

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