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Men from my tribe in Sudan - the Dinka tribe - are very tall, so you could say I was born to play basketball.
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
Coming onto the Jordan Brand absolutely gives more attention to women's basketball and basketball in general.
I've had so much great teaching, and I'm one of the best defensive players to ever play the game on the wing.
It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.
I eat at certain times. I got to leave the house at certain times. I shower at certain times before the game.
As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.
If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty.
At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.
I knew I was a player that could break guys down and create for my teammates, and that is how I looked at it.
I just want to say, 'Nice job,' but now let the professional take over. There can only be one me. Uno más me.
I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.
I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.
You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.
I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's].Because everybody else is.
My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.
I think playing the 5 is an advantage for me. I'm much quicker than a lot of the other centers in our league.
We need everyone, every game. So I'm not going to put myself in the position to hurt my team or my teammates.
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
In the Finals, you want to set a statement like, 'This is me. This is who I am.' You know everyone's watching.
When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.
I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.
I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.
No matter who I'm playing against, they're going to say that I'm one of the toughest guys they play, for sure.
I used to always brick. I used to always do like UCLA or Indiana late game, on the road, and I'll always miss.
I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad he did.
Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.
People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
We had guys come out of high school, Moses Malone, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, but all these guys could play.
I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.
In any situation in order to excel and reach the pinnacle with a group of people, there have to be sacrifices.
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
I think different guys have different priorities. For me, it was always important to be in one spot, one city.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself.
The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.
If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.
I've kind of given up trying to evaluate college guys, especially guys from Virginia, just because of my bias.
I have off days all the time too, but nobody really cares when I have an off day. People care when Kyrie does.
It was really important for me to get a degree that carried some weight, something that I really wanted to do.
Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.
Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.