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The ultimate sports figure. The ultimate competitor. Great person. I consider him my friend. I wouldn't be that good if I was Michael Jordan.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Great Person
Jordan
Ultimate
Good Great Sports
Competitor
Consider
Michael
Michael Jordan
My Friend
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When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, 'Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.' I knew I'd have an automatic chance to win a championship.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Championship
Automatic
Be Nice
Drafted
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I try to imagine what it will be like to play for the Bulls. I don't think I will be able to feel it before I step on the court at Chicago Stadium.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Bulls
Stadium
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I try to help people looking for food and money and clothes. I have done some radio transmissions here in Italy to tell people the truth about Croatia.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Croatia
Help People
Italy
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I'm not a political man. I'm a basketball player. So that's what I have to do first. But second, I will try to help my country because I am a Croatian.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Basketball Player
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I shot millions and millions of shots, just wanted the ball and felt good every time I released the ball, especially in those last seconds of big games.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Seconds
Millions And Millions
Released
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My wife doesn't want to go. She says, 'I am your wife, I will do as a wife should.' But she is worried about what she will do in Chicago, all by herself.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Herself
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My family, I can say, is pretty Americanized. My son has lived pretty much all his life in Chicago, my daughter was born in Chicago, we all like Chicago.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Americanized
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My generation, with Vlade Divac, Drazen Petrovic, Arvydas Sabonis, that was the first wave of European players that kind of opened the door for the world.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
My Generation
Wave
Door
European
Players
Generation
Opened
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It was almost an accident that I got into basketball at all but fortunately it wasn't too late and I was able to be a part of a great generation for the sport.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Too Late
Accident
Fortunately
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Someone can tell you something a million times, but if you don't know what they're talking about, it's hard to adjust and even more difficult to become a believer.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Believer
Adjust
Million Times
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I don't want to say which guard it was with the Bulls, but I would take the ball and he would come to me and say, 'You are taking my bread.' I didn't know the slang.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Bread
Bulls
Slang
Me Know Want
Guard
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It's a saying if coach likes and sees good stuff in you and wants you to play he'll pick on you, he'll make you work and do things right. Once he stops talking to you, you know you're done.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Work Good Done
Sees
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I think it's time for me to move away from basketball. It was a huge part of my life and gave me pretty much everything I desired but there comes a time when you just can't take it anymore.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Life Time Me
Desired
Huge Part
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I was one of the main guys on my team and you always want to check people that you're bringing in. Are they tough enough physically and mentally? Can they respond when you need them to respond?
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Mentally
Check
Enough Always People
Respond
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Scottie was just a different character than Michael. He was more the soft side. Every once in a while he would explode, but he would help me. Michael on the other end was almost always aggressive.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Aggressive
Always Character Me
Character Always Me
Explode
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For nine years, I was playing at more or less the same weight and I'm a little bit slower than I used to be. But I'm glad I have a couple of pounds more because I think it will help me in games for sure.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Glad
Pounds
Me Help Will
More Or Less
Slower
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I understood I would have to earn respect. I was coming to the best team in the world. You have to put aside all your accolades and pride. It doesn't matter if you were good in Europe. I was OK with that.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Accolades
Aside
Earn
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Now if you ask me about coming from Europe, I would suggest to any young player interested in the NBA to not spend two or three years in Europe searching for money. Just give it a shot. You can always go back.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Nba
Searching
Suggest
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Chicago is one of the greatest places when it comes to sports. It kind of reminds me of my hometown in Split. It doesn't matter how bad the soccer team is, everybody worships the soccer, the players and the games.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Hometown
Soccer
Reminds
Split
Worships
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Like everybody coming from Europe, I didn't believe it at first, but you really need time to adjust. I thought it was going to be like going from Croatia to Italy. But you really need the time just to understand things here.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Croatia
Adjust
Italy
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I have an easy way to explain the war. It's a Croatian defending his country and a Serb attacking a Croatian country. With anyone who has a problem with understanding what's going on, that is the easiest way to understand it.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Attacking
Understanding
Defending
Easiest
Easiest Way
Explain
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Obviously, when you come onto a team that's playing in the Finals and the standards are so high that nothing but winning a championship is success, coming in new to that kind of environment, of course you're going to put pressure on yourself.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Championship
Finals
Standards
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It is a thrill and an honor to again be a part of the team that helped define my basketball career here in the United States and in Chicago. The Bulls have become my extended family, and I am really looking forward to the future and being a Bull for life.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Bulls
Extended Family
Looking Forward
Thrill
Life Future Family
Bull
Define
Extended
Life Family Future
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In Italy, my wife and I always said we feel like strangers because there's maybe only a couple other people from other parts of the world. Here in Chicago, there's millions of people from Poland, thousands from Japan, hundreds from Croatia. We like it here.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Croatia
Japan
Poland
Hundreds
Italy
Millions Of People
Strangers
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Coming here, I never thought about being like what I was supposed to be in Europe, the No. 1 guy and building the whole team around you. Coming here, I was relaxed about that because I knew there was going to be Michael, Scottie, Horace and I could learn from them.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Europe
Relaxed
Michael
Supposed
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Sometimes in my mind I have a picture of something happening, and because the foot is not right it is harder to happen. I see the ball and I can see myself intercepting it or rebounding or doing this stuff, and it's just not there. There's not the movement or explosiveness.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Foot
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I thought those three years when we won championships, I really was good enough to play in the All-Star game. I felt I deserved to be in the top whatever that would be, the top 20-some players in the league. Really felt that comfortable and confident on the basketball court.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Basketball Court
Good Enough Game
All-Star
All-Star Game
Championships
Deserved
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I think it's very important for every player after a long season, whether it's good or bad, to get total rest. Not just physically and mentally from basketball and the pressure on the court, but the pressures outside, too. Then, when you come back, everything's exciting again.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Mentally
Good Long Bad
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A lot has to be the NBA. I don't know if I can say it is the egos of the players or the money that goes around and everything. But those relationships between the coaches and the players are just not the same. They are not even close to the European coach-player relationships.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Coaches
Nba
Egos
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I would say it was my fault, my choice to not allow people to know who I was. Places I went, people I knew, they knew the way Toni Kukoc was as a person and they all treated me great. Everyone else who just read the newspapers and tried to learn about me, I guess I was not that good of a guy.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
Newspapers
Good Great Me
Everyone Else
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You never know when people with sick minds can destroy your life. It doesn't matter how well life is going on for you that moment. If that can't happen in the middle of New York City, it can happen anywhere else. If the terrorists can hit the Pentagon or the White House I don't see where it's safe.
Toni Kukoc / Basketball Player
New York City
Pentagon
White House
Life Moment Your
Anywhere Else
Destroy
Terrorists
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