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Preparation is everything.
When all else fails, trust God.
It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.
A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart.
Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.
I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.
My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.
It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.
You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.
When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.
Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.
When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'
If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.
I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.
We went through a nice stretch of big guys. But soon, everyone is going to realize that there's only one Steph Curry.
Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.
You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.
I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.
I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.
I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.
Marc Gasol, he's more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now.
You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry.
You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.
Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.
I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy.
You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.
Obviously, I'm not working out the way I was when I was playing. I do yoga. I swim a lot. I'm drinking a lot of good, healthy mixes. I got myself a Vitamix.
I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.
USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.
It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong.
The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever.
I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.
What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.
It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.
Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'
I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.
Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
Largely in the beginning, I did a lot of extra work because I was lighter than all the other guys. I was at a massive disadvantage, so I had to put on weight. I started with eating. I had to really focus on my diet.
Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.
Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet's. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S.
All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.
In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.