Jerry Colangelo Quotes on World (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.

We need to change the perception of how the world looks at us as a country and a basketball power and we have to reclaim what we lost. It's a lot about how they look, how they act on and off the court. The only way to change the perception is to have people doing the right thing and that's the goal.

This whole concept of a Dream Team, that's over and done with, ... The theme going forward is more about respecting the world basketball community, and it's also about redemption. We have a lot to come back from.