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I penetrated and they sent the bigger guys on the floor after me. Earlier in the season I was able to shoot over smaller guys in there. Walters didn't guard anybody but me.


Brandon Roy

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ROY AYERS Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.
ROY AYERS I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.
ROY AYERS The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, ar...
ROY AYERS Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
ROY BARNES Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and...
ARUNDHATI ROY There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the peo...
ROY BENNETT I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
ROY KEANE If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every...
RACHEL ROY Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good thing...
DEEP ROY I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce r...
ROY BLUNT I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacula...
ROY HALLADAY You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven i...
ROY BEAN The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised s...
ROY JENKINS The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian...
ARUNDHATI ROY I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think...
ROY LICHTENSTEIN It was great to finally get it, because I heard most of the guys already got it who were on other te...
ANDRE ROY Sometimes it's hard to get going because it's early, but I think once you're in the warm-up, you're ...
ANDRE ROY That's how we did it when we were kids, outdoors on the pond or whatever.
ANDRE ROY