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You can control what you put in your body, how you take care of yourself, how much you work. You have to control what you can.
Honest truth is I didn't really know from year to year what people were making. I think that was the best perspective to have.
Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.
For me, speed isn't anything I ever practiced. It's all in the genes. Plus, my mom gave me a lot of vitamins when I was small.
In order to do great things, you have to take on challenges in your life. Im doing nothing but taking on different challenges.
It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
Being in a fishbowl, everybody looking at every move you make, talking about everything you do - it's just a hard life to live.
I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.
I always say, to this day, that the Air Jordan guy was great and God bless him. But I'll always just remember Michael, the guy.
I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.
Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.
My thing was I had attitude every night. No matter who I played, who I went against, what team, you've got to have an attitude.
No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.
The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.
I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. They see that I take nothing for granted in life. It helps them stay grounded.
Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody's goal.
I was a professional rehab/workout guy for four years. I wasn't even a basketball player - just a guy who got paid to exercise.
I play for a living, but I also love to play. That's a healthy balance of emotion that, as a player, you have to keep balanced.
I'd just shoot until I got tired. I wanted to improve my outside shooting and my ball handling. I wanted to improve everything.
[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
I was lucky in my rookie year to play in the NBA Finals, to have that experience, to see what it was like to get to that stage.
That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.
In eighth grade, I was actually better in football. I played running back, wide receiver, and safety - just like Allen Iverson.
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.
Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.
I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.
I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.
I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.
This means the world to me that you guys are here with me celebrating with me. Thank you. Thank you. I can’t express it enough.
It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.
I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.
I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.
There's certain companies that line up with what the brand represents. There are other things that are more investment-focused.
Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.
I really enjoy being out on the court and going through the grind and battling. That's something a video game can't do for you.
I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.
I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.
Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.
In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'
It's crazy, it really is, to just be fortunate enough to continue to be in positions to win, to be playing well, to be healthy.
It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.
I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.
When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.
We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.
I loved playing against the Pacers and Reggie Miller. Reggie was a great competitor, and I enjoyed playing against competitors.
Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.
Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.