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My favorite champions is the 1995 championship with the Rockets. We were the sixth seed without home court advantage.
It's the playoffs, man. If you don't get excited about the playoffs, you don't even deserve to be playing basketball.
There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.
There's no reason to hold yourself back and say you can't do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.
If I had an opportunity to hand-pick a team that I wanted to play in the NBA Finals, it would probably be the Lakers.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Now, if you're an NBA fan, you know what Vince Carter did. I came up with a line about him: 'Half-man, half-amazing.'
It's just one more win. I don't give a [bleep] how we do it, as long as we get it done. Did I say [bleep]? I'm sorry.
Donald Trump is a great friend, and he has four or five Picassos on his plane. And that's where I would look at them.
I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.
I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.
That's something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It's so important.
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.
My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the other things.'
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
When I say that Kansas all rolls as one unit, they all roll as one unit. Like, everyone. They never leave anybody out.
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.
The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'
It's always a little gross when you're guarding someone and you can see, like, hair coming from underneath his jersey.
We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.
I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.
If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth.
A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.
I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.
I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.
I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.
I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.
It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.
Larry Bird was a talker. He'd tell you something and you'd be like, are you kidding me? You're really telling me that?
When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'
When you're in there getting buckets, you're not really paying attention to who's there. You're just doing your thing.
Like the Wizards, Madame Tussauds has become a fixture in the nation's capital and one that I'm proud to be a part of.
I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.
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.
There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.
You know how certain adults feel, the older they get, the longer the walk was to school? Well, I don't feel like that.
Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.
Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.
If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.
You're gonna have pretty bad defeats. But you've gotta be able to respond and come back in and compete the next night.
When our career is over, when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing, we still have to find something else to do.
Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
Most of the players in the league use marijuana, and I have and do partake in smoking weed in the offseason sometimes.
If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.
I think people that are, you know, voting in the blind are doing a disservice to America by not being better informed.