Charles Barkley in Drag?

Is there some special, top-secret "sports cliché" training manual that ALL professional athletes are required to memorize before talking to the media?

‎"Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team."
~ Scottie Pippen
Reach Higher (Hardcover)

...life in contrast...

Neighborhood Book Shop, Changsha, P.R.C. (February 2009)

Sports Rule #1?

Never BLAME the FANS for your professional shortcomings?


"All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today." ~ LeBron James



Lebron James: The Making of an MVP (Paperback)