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I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.
If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.
I'm not a troublemaker. People say, 'You got into a lot of incidents.' Yeah, but it was on the basketball floor.
Back in our day and era, you had to have your potential and be ready to play right away. Everybody was talented.
My house is going - kids running out, my wife is running in and out - but I like to sit down and have breakfast.
Tim Hardaway was a guy who had his crossover and then he could shoot a jump shot and he could get to the bucket.
Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.
Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
I'm not trying to plant the seed that I'm the most fashionable NBA guy - of course, I think that in my own mind.
Some games you're gonna have seven shots, some games you're gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.
My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.
I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before a game.
I'm fortunate to be a player who can do a lot of things well. Not everything perfectly, but several things well.
It's hard to understand how you're feeling, or you don't even know. That's why sometimes people seek counseling.
I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.
I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw myself.
I'll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.
Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.
Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.
My mission on this planet hasn't changed. I want to nurture the planet, to guide the planet, to help the planet.
I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.
You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity
I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.
I don't know how their ranking goes or anything else, and I tell people I don't really care how the rankings go.
It's very tough to build a championship team. It takes time and good players, and you have to get lucky as well.
The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.
Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
To be honest with you, I just want to be true to the game of basketball, and that's what I've always tried to do.
Now that I've had a chance to play for a team where we won 30 or 35 games, you understand how special winning is.
Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people.
If you love the game and you love playing, just have fun and enjoy it. Work hard and don't get bogged down by it.
Your offense might not be great every game, but defense is just about working hard and outworking your opponents.
Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
The best player I've ever played against is Kobe Bryant. I have seen him do some stuff that is just unbelievable.
Success means being satisfied with what you do every day. It's being proud of the better person you are becoming.
You've got to respect the game and you've got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.
My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.