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I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.
Guys pay extra attention to detail. They are looking at every little thing on the scouting report.
I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.
It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.
This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.
Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.
Throughout my career, I've never really been a guy who created drama or wanted to deal with drama.
Any guy who can maintain a positive attitude without much playing time certainly earns my respect.
God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.
In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.
When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.
I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
I just need to get more aggressive and let my teammates feel all that energy and all that emotion.
I was always about the team, regardless of our relationship wasn't working out or didn't work out.
When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.
I get excited for the regular season also, but it's just added excitement when the playoffs start.
It would have been a short career if I had not been traded to Boston. I was rejuvenated in Boston.
I enjoy different designers for different seasons and what they bring to it each and every season.
I'm a guy who is easy to get along with, and I'll put up with a lot of things. But not dishonesty.
Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.
My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.
Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).
Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.
I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.
I know Steve Kerr well and his basketball IQ is really high. He knows everything about basketball.
Any award the NBA gives you, whether it's on the court or off the court, it's definitely an honor.
Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.
I think the people of New York have done a pretty great job with coming together for Sandy relief.
I believe that love gives you the freedom and power to share your best self and to inspire others.
It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.
I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.
I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.
These close games that we're losing, the teams are not beating us. We're kind of beating ourselves.
Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.
I really thought about being on one team for my entire career, and that was really important to me.
As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.
Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.
People are still trying to figure out who I am. Most people just say I play the game the right way.
Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.
Everyone else has days when they don't want to smile, when you just want to come in and be regular.
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.