"I'm chasing perfection."
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"I wouldn’t say I’m a ball hog. I’m a shooter. I don’t necessarily hog the ball, but I put them up though. I definitely much rather shoot it than pass it. That’s just how I am."
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"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it."
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"Everybody has a different journey."
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"One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone."
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"Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness."
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"Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences."
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"What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close."
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"You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are."
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"Teach players the game at an early age and stop treating them like cash cows for everyone to profit off of."
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"The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn more, or to feel like you could have done more, and to be brutally honest and self critical, which is very hard to do. It's easy, and human nature is to just blame somebody else. It's very, very hard to self assess."
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"The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful."
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"Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside."
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"Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you."
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"It’s not a question of if we make the playoffs; we will. And when we get there, I have no fear of anyone."
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"The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million."
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"I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up."
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"Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid."
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"I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant."
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"Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision."
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