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When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.
I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.
When I decided to come to Sacramento, all my friends thought I was crazy. They said they still have cows and sheep around Arco.
My dream, play in NBA. When I come here, very difficult for me. It's new country, new language. But is still basketball for me.
The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.
I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.
Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there.
You've got organizations out there that are consistently at a high level. They're known to play the right way at the right time.
I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.
I want people to come to Clipper games and smile. I want people to come to Clipper games and be entertained and dance and laugh.
The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.
What does politically correct mean? If you're fat, don't ask me if you're fat, because I'm gonna tell you the truth. You're fat.
Every superstar in this league, if you don't go through adversity, if you try to duck and dodge it, it's gonna damper your team.
I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.
What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.
If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.
At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.
I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.
Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.
It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?
My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.
I feel like, of course, Portland didn't want me to leave, but I feel like at the end of the day it's good to have a fresh start.
Don't think for one min that I haven't been taking mental notes of everyone taking shots at me this summer. And I mean everyone!
Larry, you only told me one lie. You said there will be another Larry Bird. Larry, there will never, ever be another Larry Bird.
I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.
Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?
I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back.
The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.
My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, 'That's the guy I want to go into battle with.'
Sometimes, the best shots you can put up are the ones when you don't shoot the ball - you gotta give your legs a rest sometimes.
I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans.... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much.
We knew what it was like to go without a lot of things, but we didn't mind, because we were going without those things together.
In the playoffs, it's win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, 'Man, we didn't box out here.'
I'm a family man, and I couldn't be happier. My wife and I have been blessed with an incredible family, and my kids are my life.
By the time I was 19 years old, I had lived in five different cities in four different countries and three different continents.
We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.
I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.
If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.