Kelvin Sampson

North Carolina · born or raisedBorn 1955

American basketball player and coach

Born in Laurinburg
Studied at University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Quotations with a citation

I always identified with the brothers — and still do

The tobacco market was where I realized where I was living. When you went to the bathroom, there were three different bathrooms: white, colored and others.

As you get older, you tend not to worry about what people say or think. When you are young in the profession and a little insecure, and I think I was both for a long time, you’re constantly seeking approval, everybody likes that. I think that when you get older, you focus on doing that for other people and not worrying about it yourself. I don’t need it anymore, I don’t care about it anymore.

We want the younger guys, the younger brothers to have it better than we had it