"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
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"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.“
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"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."
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"I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success."
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