"There are two great feelings," he proclaimed, sounding like a native Minnesotan.
"We have a great story no matter who wins," he proclaimed, a little Stern-like.
Two of his friends were also taking part in the ritual, and after sleeping communally on bamboo mats the night before, he proclaimed the experience "like a camp-out".
The junior guard was impressed enough with himself after scoring 22 points on 8-of-9 shooting in a victory over Villanova on Wednesday that he proclaimed, "I feel like I'm one of the best shooters in the country, and I have to play that way".
"I don't like the word," he proclaimed one day last month, soon after welcoming me to his modest apartment cum studio here on the outskirts of the city.
"When I walk on the floor for the final execution I'll wear a denim suit," he proclaimed recently, "I'll walk in there like Willie Nelson, John Wayne, Will Smith, 'Men in Black,' James Brown.
After he proclaimed a preference for girls who like carrots, prior to the band's first tour, security guards at the arenas were baffled as to why concertgoers came bearing bags and bags of the orange vegetable.
In others a city's staple product was proclaimed, like silphium at Cyrene, a silver-miner's pick at Damastium, a bunch of grapes at Naxos, a wine jar at Chios.
Watch Bes handle a gleaming white horse as he proclaims his usual sound statements like "When I die, make sure you spread my blood on a BMW," while Bronson does the raps and the rest of the F*CK, THAT's DELICIOUS crew appears throughout.
He proclaims that every train compartment smells like excrement, adding that he has reached a point where he doesn't mind.
