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Toni Kukoc

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 18, 1968

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.

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I worry for the future of the world. For my children.

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My uncle was almost hit by a sniper while dropping his son at basketball practice.

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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.

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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.

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I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

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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.

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When I first started playing, we practiced nine hours a day. Five and a half to six hours of those were working on the fundamentals.

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Obviously the game is more enjoyable when the ball is shared and everybody looks for each other on both ends of the floor.

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I am not a prima donna. It's just that I feel cold on the bench.

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I have to go to the NBA and try.

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Only Vlade Divac go first year he play. The rest of the guys from Europe sit on the bench.

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I am a basketball player. For me to sit on the bench at 21, 22, not what I wanted.

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I don't think the people in Chicago really knew exactly who I was in the seven years I was there.

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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.

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Money-wise, I was probably the best player in Europe. It was safe where I was in Italy. But I wanted to play in the NBA to see if I could.

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I never was anybody's guy. I always was myself.

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War very strange thing. Not easy, not easy for sure to leave family, friends, even car, house, everything.

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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.

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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.

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