"The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates"

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Source : Jay Bilas (2013). “Toughness: Developing True Strength On and Off the Court”, p.28, Penguin

Jay Bilas

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“I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.”
“I always keep moments that were defining for me in my past and challenged me in my past - from getting evicted out of my apartment when I was 14 years old, to being cut from the CFL [Canadian Football League] and only having 7 bucks in my pocket, to bouts with depression - I keep moments like that very close to me because it continues to be great motivators for me. It helps keep me grounded, and it's a good reminder of how things work, and I never want to go back to that.”
“How were the receipts today in Madison Square Garden ?”
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.”
“Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.”
“I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.”
“Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.”
“By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.”

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