"I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life."
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"To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players."
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"I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season."
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"I expect us to be good; very good. I expect us to first and foremost be better than we were last year and get back to having this franchise as one of the premier franchises on and off the court, and I think we have the opportunity to do that this upcoming season. I really believe that."
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"The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal."
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"I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court."
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"I’m a basketball player, not a monk."
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"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail."
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"If nobody will help you do it alone!"
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"It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart"
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"I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything."
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"Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?"
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"Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates"
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"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."
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"When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game."
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"It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do."
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"I've never been afraid to fail."
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"For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball."
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"Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision."
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"I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us."
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