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you know today's jock will fight every bit as hard to get to the top of the
hill as we did uh... competitive and determined
i don't think they'll fight anywhere near as hard as we did we the players from
thirty fourty years ago to stay on top of the hill you know
we won those units uh... which
I don't I don't
i'm a uh...
uh... today person I'm not a yesterday person so I don't go down to the cellar and look at the
trophies and worry about what happened
thirty years ago very much
but if i have a couple of beers and want to boast a little bit about the old days I feel
very
proud and privileged to have been a part in what i consider the greatest
team sport
professional team sport dynasty frankly of all time you can talk yankeys
montreals green bays in the other sports
no one ever dominated their sphere of
uh...
expertise
as completely as those celtics teams did from fifty seven to sixty nine there was eleven
championships
in thirteen years
uh... that has never
been done before and in my judgment will never be done again given what you're
referring to all the distractions all the money
that uh... that these guys are being
uh... given today to play a child's game for eight months
so that
they're still every bit as determined because they wouldn't be at that level
but there are so many distractions
they have financial security from the time they uh... they
for this lifetime
and if you believe in shirley maclaine for the next two or whatever
so where's the it's it's a
declining
motivational thing you know
uh... they'll say to you hey man we got great pride and we want to be the best we
can be
as we all do
but at some point when you wake up with that hangover
and you got forty million in the bank it's easier to roll back on a pillow and not
go to work and fight your *** off you know
so uh...
yes that's present it's a distraction
uh... you can't you know you can't give kids getting out of never mind getting out of college
getting out of high school now some of them don't stop at college
uh... forty million dollars to play a childs game
and expect to get a
a smooth
concerned community-oriented
you know people person out of all that because none of us here
if we're given those kind of
of goodies so early in our life i think you know it's the animal that's at fault we
we have we the system has created a frankenstein monster in
sports and uh...
and so you get a lot of examples that you the fan you know
uh... for you the fan they're turn offs
uh... and you say you know what's all the
the uh...
uh... demonstrations the trash talk the uh...
the tattoos oh absolutely everything the crimes everything that we can't relate to
but there's a reason for that again without making excuses for the jocks
this is what the society or the sports world has created
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