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A lot of times I just feel like this is not a special day, these are just clothes that I bought.
I would like to walk in a room and people know who I am and be like, "Oh, I respect his opinion."
When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.
I respect them [Amar Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony or Dwyane Wade], but would I dress like them? No.
I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.
Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.
I express myself through song when I can't let people in on my thoughts otherwise. I need the creative process.
I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.
You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.
I can go toe-to-toe with somebody with my shoes. But you can't do it with LeBron, 'cause what shoe does he not have?
Everything was always a pretty up and down for me. It's always been an uphill battle as far as getting respect goes.
Love is one of the only reminders besides pain that things are real. It's one of the only things worth fighting for.
I was called fool's gold. That's what I was called in the draft combine. That's how I remember it. I took it personal.
Everyday has to be different for me. Even if people are like, "You dressed up like a character today, it's not Halloween."
As I go back and look at the film, if I look at my first year, every time I caught the ball, I was looking to do something.
If the offensive player starts losing confidence, that gets the defender's confidence up - and I think the team can feel it.
[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"
When I was growing up, all my cousins had high-top fades. I thought it would be cool to see how long I could grow a high-top.
My music, you know I'm not lying about anything, and the way you can tell is how in-depth I can get about everything I'm talking about.
Of course there's going to be times when I'm going to have to step up and knock down corner 3s, but I don't want to settle all the time.
My job is to pay attention to the feel of the game and always add a positive energy to it on my team through the ups and downs of the game.
[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.
I just write verses. I don't write all day long. When I have something that needs to be said, I just write it down on my notepad in my iPhone.
I started dressing and people used to ask, "Where do you get all that stuff?" I was going to thrift stores with my best friend Bianca Stewart.
I think when I started playing against some of the best guys on the AAU circuit, I started to look at myself and say, 'I am one of these guys.'
With Cleveland, I think they did a great job in knowing what their team needed, and when I came, I just did my job, and they fully embraced me.
I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.
I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don't want to play too much in the post.
There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.
The NBA actually encourages balanced living. Realistically, basketball only takes up about six hours of your day before it becomes counterproductive.
That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump.
I wish I was in my 20s during the '90s to really fully live it. I feel like that was a pretty exciting time being from Chicago, seeing Jordan win six rings.
Truth is, none of us professional athletes are ever 100 percent healthy. We just decide what we're going to tape up and push through without making it worse.
I always knew what I wanted to dress like but that's when I became really passionate about it. We'd be in class and Google outfits or I'd doodle what I wanted.
I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.
I was growing, so I had to scrunch my feet up. Now people are like: "Why do you have so many shoes." I jump at the fact that I can wear something new everyday.
I think early on in the league, my biggest problem was I tried to put out what I believe was an innocent fire because I felt it was a conflict with other stars.
I'm super reserved in letting people in my house. A lot of guys don't trust anybody in their homes but they would trust somebody like me because I've been there.
I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
Don't let men fool you... we all want love; we just know that it can leave us very vulnerable, and we seek a woman who understands and protects that with her life.
When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the more I could look different on an everyday basis, the better.
I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.
I asked Tyson Chandler who has to customize everything because he's 7-foot-1. He's said, always call a designer. You want to wear certain stuff but people don't make it.
Love is one of the most powerful and most dangerous things I've ever encountered and, within the same breath, one of the most beautiful and relevant journeys of my life.
I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.
I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built.
My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.
I believe all men that are desired by masses of women due to looks, drive, and character are all more than likely to be seeing multiple women (Rightfully so if they are single).
Since I entered the league, half of my checks have always gone into a separate account... I pride myself on doing that. I've done it no matter the size of my contract or salary.