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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.

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

Nothing can prepare an 18-year-old for the fishbowl that is Duke basketball. So that was difficult.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.

I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

I am focusing on the process of making my dream come true, which is to play professional basketball.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

I want my son to never know the mommy who would rather watch him play basketball than play with him.

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.

We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

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