"We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10."

Source : "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

Masai Ujiri

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“I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.”
“I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too.”

Source : Gustavo Santaolall's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 5, 2006.
“We need to build our friendships on truth and wholeness. We need friends who can be with us in our loneliness, not people who will cheer us up so that we donâ€™t feel it. We need friends who get furious with us when we are not being real or true to ourselves, not when we donâ€™t do what they want us to do.”
“Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.”
“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket
“I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.”
“We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.”
“When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1877). “Essentials and Non-essentials in Religion: Six Lectures Delivered in the Music Hall, Boston”

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