"I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily."
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"For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home."
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"Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart."
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"I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?"
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"The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman."
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"Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it."
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"But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys."
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"I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up."
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"I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do."
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"It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is."
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"As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals."
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"And winning is a huge thing for me."
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"If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been."
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"As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this."
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"I think the reason why I'm the person who I am today is because I went through those tough times when I was younger."
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"That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing."
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"In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball."
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"When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable."
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"I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop."
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"I don't want to be Kobe, I want to be LeBron."
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