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When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.
I try to look at what KG does, what Tim Duncan does, what Amare Stoudamire does ... I compare and evaluate myself with them.
You can't let emotions get involved with what the common goal is: to win. At the end of the day, that's what it's all about.
Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling.
There are a lot of people from my Central Arkansas days that I owe a lot of thanks to for how they helped me over the years.
I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.
I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.
We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter.
What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.
I'm pretty much on the "eat whatever you can diet," just to get calories in, so I can maintain myself throughout the season.
The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day.
But I'm going to play with the same passion and desire every night, and nobody's going to change that. Not referees. Nobody.
You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.
You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.
I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.
When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.
My goal is simple - try and make sure my guy doesn't score. And if he does, make sure it's a contested two, or a tough shot.
When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
You hit road blocks in life, but I'm living proof that you can overcome those road blocks and become what you want to become.
When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.
If your best players are taking a shortcut, they're going to have problems holding everyone else accountable and responsible.
Every now and then you have to be a little nasty, a little aggressive on the floor. That's part of being a basketball player.
My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.
I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.
Not that I shouldn't have been traded - everyone gets traded at some point. But the way that it went down wasn't justifiable.
If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.
If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!
When I'm anywhere, I'm going to show God that I'm thankful just for life. I'm living out my dream. This is what I want to do.
Some people would rather not go to arenas; they'd rather just sit at home and watch the game at home or play on the computer.
I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.
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.
Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.
The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can
It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.
I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.
I don't think the Lakers could control Tony Parker's ability to get into the paint, so his health is the key for San Antonio.
I spoil a lot of people with my play. If you have three bad games in a seven-year career, people are going to point that out.
I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.
To me, somebody can say what they want about me all day, whether it's my game or my personality or who I am as a human being.
I grew up in Brixton as a young teenager playing basketball for the Brixton Topcats, which marked the beginning of my career.