"Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night."
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"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results."
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"If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them."
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"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."
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"After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important."
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"A man is as big as the measure of his thinking."
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"Ask me to play. I'll play. Ask me to shoot. I'll shoot. Ask me to pass. I'll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it's not what you ask of me. It's what I ask of myself."
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"Anything can happen with hard work and dedication"
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"You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth."
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"I never thought a role model should be negative."
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"I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that."
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"I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal."
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"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters."
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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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"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy."
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"After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points."
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"Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things."
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"Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute."
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"Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them"
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"Being an All-Star is everything."
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