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If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Basketball
Beats
Nba
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I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Done
Emotion
Trying
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It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster - in the people's eyes - because of my association with the Celtics.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Association
Neutral
Broadcaster
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Chuck Daly was a man and a coach who everyone had great respect for, and to be recognized in his memory is very special.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Men
Chuck
Great Respect
Memories
Special
Respect Great Man
Coach
Memory
Recognized
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Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Cheer
Hands
Hook
Anybody
Shot
Easiest
Hand
Jump
Shoots
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I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Basketball
Depending
Interchangeable
Play Basketball
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You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Hero
Goat
Shot
Gotta
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I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Restaurants
I Am Me Country
Hudson
Ladies
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I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Court
Handle
People
Together
Trying
Competitive
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What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Running
Basketball
Stamina
Team
Willpower
Run
Test
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I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Fans
Mike
Player
Thinking
Best Me Fans
Broadcast
Coach
Partner
Shrek
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My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Blue
Bottom
Brand New
College
Going Away
Impression
Mother
Pants
Peg
Powder
Skinny
Thinking
Suit
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He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Sports
Basketball
Fun
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Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Men
Nba
Team
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Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Bail
Hook
Including
Nba
Ninety
Coached
Guards
Ninety Percent
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In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Basketball
Differences
Matched
Officials
Team
Wrong Way
Possessions
Teams
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About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Basketball
Moving
Thinking
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About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Standing
Time Great Your
Time Great Game
Basket
Floor
Leveler
Undress
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As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I'll play until I can't keep up with the kids any longer.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Agony
Basketball
Selling
Wonder
Begins
Side
Fulfills
Insurance
Suppose
Longer
Nicely
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Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors.
Tom Heinsohn / Basketball Player
Boston
Brutal
Controversy
Serving
Sponsors
Talk Radio
Talking
Thinking
Work Start People
Sell
Jerks
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