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Basketball player and author
United States · b. 1947
The NBA's leading scorer for thirty-eight years and a six-time champion, who has since written more than a dozen books of history and memoir.
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I don’t think that is tough, because if you have an idea of something meaningful to communicate, you can move forward on that. You might not be successful in communicating what you want to communicate, but at least you have an idea of something that needs to be said, or something that you think should be said, and I think you go from there.
Recorded Academy of Achievement source ↗
Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
My college years, when everything was possible and I felt physically invulnerable.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗
I don’t think that is tough, because if you have an idea of something meaningful to communicate, you can move forward on that. You might not be successful in communicating what you want to communicate, but at least you have an idea of something that needs to be said, or something that you think should be said, and I think you go from there.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 1989 source ↗
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