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I feel like I can defend three different positions: point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards who don't want to play too much in the post.
I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
That's why the fears of playing or coaching, you want to do everything possible to make it. A lot of teams make it look real easy, but it is hard.
Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.
Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.
Yeah, I think any time you're comfortable playing within a system you're going to play more aggressive. You're going to play with more confidence.
I just try to live the right way the best I can. I make plenty of mistakes but I just try to do the best I can and be a great example for my kids.
Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning.
Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.
Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.
I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
The expectation levels aren't as high because a team is expected to win on its home court. That takes a little of the pressure off us on the road.
I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.
Colin Kaepernick is the latest professional athlete to spark a national debate about the meaning behind the American flag and the national anthem.
I remember I came into the NBA in 1999; the game was a little bit more rough. The game now is more for kids. It's not really a man's game anymore.
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy.
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
I don't just want to make the playoffs or get to the first or second round. When I compete or make it to the playoffs, I expect to win every time.
It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.
You've got to listen to yourself, do what you think is best. Because if you listen to the critics, you might be going in all different directions.
Whenever I see a celebrity that comes to watch me play, I'm going to do for them the same thing they've done for me - bring them some type of joy.
Recently partnered with Express Men as a brand ambassador, so my closet is full of the new fashion trends and styles that keep me fresh for games.
Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.
When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, 'Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.' I knew I'd have an automatic chance to win a championship.
I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.
Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.
I don't really care too much about what people who don't care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.
Since I've been a part of this league, I can't recall when they've actually made rules that have actually helped to improve the game of basketball.
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.
I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.
I've become a huge fan of the subway, even though I've gotten lost... well, not lost, but went the wrong direction on the subway a couple of times.
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.
I don't really mind any scrutiny. It doesn't bother me. I'm going to still live my life and do everything I do the same way and not lose any sleep.
Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.
Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.
We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.
I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.
For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.