John Thompson kept a deflated basketball on his desk at Georgetown. For recruits. Especially those he had reason to believe were interested only in playing basketball and not interested in going to school.
"Son, the ball doesn't bounce forever. When it stops, you had better have an education."
There is no stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.
"The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me," Bird added. "Because it's disrespect to my game."
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