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I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Sports
Basketball
Hockey
Number
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I never thought I was the best; I just thought I was one of the best.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
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Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Know Me
Player
Reporters
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My game is hard work and pride. On the all hard-work team, I'd pick myself five times.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Hard Work
Pride
Work Myself Hard Work
Work Myself Pride
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The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Numbers
Player
Team
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Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Athlete
Drug
People
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You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Right Way
Good Practice Way
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I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Pay
Trying
Want
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I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Enjoy
People
Way
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When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Cocaine
Getting High
Thinking
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I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Basketball
Nba
Team
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When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Able
Investing
Way
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I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Ems
Want
Writing
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When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Block
Changed
Way
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I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I'm set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Labor
Nba
Relax
Earned
Invested
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I've always just wanted to play ball, that's all. I didn't want to do no interviews, because I didn't want to be bothered with reporters.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Balls
Interviews
Play
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I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Basketball
Forever
Want
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Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Player
Team
Want
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I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Baseball
Basketball
Football
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People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Basketball
People
Play
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I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Athlete
Basketball
Ghetto
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I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.
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Morning
Party
Real
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I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I don't pay much attention to the little guys; I like the big guys who do the dirty work.
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Big Guys
Dirty Work
Ben
Much Attention
Wallace
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To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Battle
Flow
Thinking
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Ain't nobody ever had a jumpshot like mine, ain't nobody ever power moves like mine, ain't nobody ever tough defense like mine and ain't nobody ever had the courage to be a winner like me.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Defense
Winner
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I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Drinking
Drug
Want
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People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."
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Mad
Might
People
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You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Men
Hard Work
Pride
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When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?
Moses Malone / Basketball Player
Missing
People
Return
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