"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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"learning 's a gift, even when "pain" ,s your teacher!"
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"I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am."
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"Be optimistic about everything in life."
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"My attitude going into training camp as a rookie was to impress. I wanted to impress my teammates, my coaches, the owners, everybody. I wanted them to say, ?This kid is special. This kid has the right mind, the right skills, the right motivation?."
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"I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I approached everything step by step."
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"If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder."
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"I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality."
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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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"If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform."
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"Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates"
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"Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation"
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"It's always been said that when I can't find a way to do anything, I will find a way to do it."
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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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"I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges."
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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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"I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me."
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