"I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'."
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"You have to go through good times and bad times to get where you're trying to go."
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"I'd rather have more heart than talent any day."
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"I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last."
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"We're sitting in here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we in here talking about practice. I mean, listen, we're talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, we talking about practice. Not a game. Not, not... Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last. Not the game, but we're talking about practice, man. I mean, how silly is that?.. And we talking about practice. I know I supposed to be there. I know I'm supposed to lead by example... I know that... And I'm not... I'm not shoving it aside, you know, like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I do. I honestly do... But we're talking about practice man. What are we talking about? Practice? We're talking about practice, man."
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"I'm not perfect. But I am trying every day to concentrate on being better."
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"A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot"
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"Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice."
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"If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. I ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like it's my last, but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?"
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"When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better."
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"When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh."
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"If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win."
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"I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from."
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"I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger!"
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"My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things."
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"I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete."
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"I went through what I went through because God said go through it"
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"My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that."
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"I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could"
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"I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet."
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