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I always wanted to teach.

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Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

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When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

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With me and basketball, it became part of me.

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First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.

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I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

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My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

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Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

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I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: February 13th, 1947

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