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Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.
You've just got to win in China - that's it. Winning is like good deodorant. When you don't win, it's like you stink; you smell.
I don't really see myself as a sneakerhead. I think I'm someone that likes to have a nice pair of shoes on when they're playing.
Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.
I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.
Everybody knows the NBA is the top of basketball in the world. The game here is more hard, more physical, faster than in Europe.
I am thankful to the Kings organization, all the Kings fans, my family and all the people who supported me throughout my career.
I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.
It didn't work out for me at Golden State, in terms of wins and losses. Still, I tried to exhibit what a competitor is all about.
My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.
As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s.
As I have conveyed before, ultimately I would like to lead a team's basketball operation and be a part of a successful franchise.
You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
My whole life has been nothing but trying to find a way to take care of my mom and take care of my family as quickly as possible.
If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.
Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.
My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.
Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.
I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history, and I know it will only get worse as Kevin Durant continues doing big things.
What I really like is that Chicago is a big city: it has a large market, and you are exposed to everything, like shows and plays.
There are a lot of great players that never got a chance to play for a national championship. And I got a chance to play for two.
My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.
I was just one piece of the puzzle, a very small piece at that. I really enjoyed my time with the Knicks, and we had a great run.
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.
Whenever you play with better competition or play against better players, it raises your level of play on both ends of the court.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.
I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do.
You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.
I love Portland and I have so much history there and I knew it like the back of my hand, so the decision to leave was never easy.
If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.
When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.
I wasn't feeling well in the first half. I felt down, man. I had three slices of pizza before the game and the food took me down.
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees take.
It's not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.
When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.
One thing my fans don't know about me is how much I love guacamole! But it has to be a little chunky and just a little bit spicy.
I continue to learn about myself, about my past, understanding energy between people, understanding my own energy, being healthy.
Wait until you have made a definitive decision, about whatever it is that you are pondering, and then make a public announcement.
When you speak of the Pat Rileys, the Phil Jacksons, you have to speak of Don Nelson and the success that he has had in the game.
I can shoot, or I can roll, I can finish inside, I can take two-point shots, I can switch on defence and I can protect the paint.
I'm pretty confident, let's just say that, in my game right now, for what it is. So if that means a win, then I'll be real happy.
Being from New York, if you're gay, you're gay. I think it's important that if you are gay, you not be afraid to say who you are.
I've always said that besides the NBA, the Yugoslavian league and a Russian league were the best basketball leagues in the world.
If you look back at Greek mythology and even back before World War 1, every time a team would go out to battle, they'd eat first.
Of course, it's a huge luxury having LeBron on our team. At the same time, we have to be ready to play and we have to do our job.