Latest Jerry West Quotes from Interviews

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• You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

  Jerry West

  Hate, Winning, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

  Jerry West

  Racism, Age, Doe

  Source: alanpaul.net

• If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

  Jerry West

  Games, Personality, Great Person

  Source: alanpaul.net

• Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.

  Jerry West

  Games, Personality, Upset

  Source: alanpaul.net

• The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

  Jerry West

  Sports, Stars, Mean

  Source: alanpaul.net

• There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.

  Jerry West

  Player, Marketability

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

  Jerry West

  Basketball, Team, Play

  Source: alanpaul.net

• [The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

  Jerry West

  Basketball, Nba, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

  Jerry West

  Past, Games, Careers

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

  Jerry West

  Hurt, Player, Intentionally Hurt

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

  Jerry West

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

  Jerry West

  Winning, Games, Chance

  Source: alanpaul.net

• As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

  Jerry West

  Winning, Chance, Championship

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

  Jerry West

  Competent, Hard

  Source: alanpaul.net

• The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.

  Jerry West

  Team, Passion, Winning

  Source: alanpaul.net

• To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

  Jerry West

  Team, Player, One Direction

  Source: alanpaul.net

• You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

  Jerry West

  Good Luck, Winning, Way

  Source: alanpaul.net

• It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

  Jerry West

  Player, Quitting, Kind

  Source: alanpaul.net

• As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

  Jerry West

  Sports, Team, Player

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

  Jerry West

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: alanpaul.net

• I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

  Jerry West

  Winning, Thinking, Made

  Source: espn.go.com

• The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

  Jerry West

  Winning, Care, Want

  Source: espn.go.com

• I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

  Jerry West

  Graves

  Source: espn.go.com

• Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

  Jerry West

  Successful, Player, League

  Source: espn.go.com

• I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around.

  Jerry West

  Winning, People, Enjoy

  Source: espn.go.com