Jerry Colangelo Quotes on Opportunity (3 Quotes)

I've spent my entire life in the game on different levels, and here was an opportunity on an international stage to represent my country at a time when our basketball program needed an awful lot of work as a result of the World Championships in Indianapolis a few years ago and the Olympics in Athens.

He had a bad experience, you know, in Athens. He wasn't happy about how things turned out there, the outcome and his own personal experience there. He sees this as an opportunity and he buys into representing your country and winning a gold medal, and doing it the appropriate way. He wants to be a part of that.

I had a previous conversation with him and we said we would meet again when he came to Phoenix. He's really excited about it. He's really kind of juiced about representing the United States. He had some great things to say about the opportunity.