"One of the things you have to learn is that you don't have to have the ball all the time to be effective."
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"It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us."
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"You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer."
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"Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I've done in my career."
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"I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish."
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"If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart."
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"When you work hard, good things happen"
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"People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me."
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"I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game."
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"The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in."
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"Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine."
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"When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA."
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"Being an All-Star is everything."
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"Not a game, not a game... practice."
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"I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball."
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"Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices."
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"In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown."
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"I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance."
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"We talkin' about practice?"
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"If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now."
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