''What you are as a person is so far more important than what you are as a basketball player.''

This quote means that even thought you are a basketball player you don't have to change your personality . Only cause you start something new doesn't means that you will have to change.Everything will be the same if you make it be the same. For example if you join a sport or an activity and you start to think different that you have to win no matter what. You will start to cheap , you will not not talk a lot to your friends and family no more because you trying to be the best out of everyone. Another example is your friend ask you to skip class your the one that make the decisions. You will have the option to skip class or to go in to class. When you choose to go in to class you are showing the that you are a CTR person. When you don't go in that when you are showing the bad side of what kind of person you are. You will see what right at the end of everything you do.You are the one that decides what person you want to be.