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" I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue. "
David Robinson
Work
Hope
Children
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" The individual stats, that stuff is fun, but it doesn't last. Somebody else is gonna come along and break your records. But the memories that you take are forever. "
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" What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive. "
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" USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides. "
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" Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.' "
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" My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service. "
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" In the NBA, you're taking a bunch of different talents, and you're managing them. You have to give them a system; you have to give them a belief. That's why coaches like Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich are so great: because they gave the team confidence in the system and in their ability to execute night in and night out. "
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" You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe. "
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" A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart. "
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" I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen. "
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" Marc Gasol, he's more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now. "
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" Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions. "
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" I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return. "
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" Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him. "
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Mean
Foot
" My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count. "
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" Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.' "
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Team
Then
" It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct. "
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Help
Learning
People
" You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great. "
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You
Great
Got
" All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people. "
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Positive
Own
" This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets. "
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Sports
Boat
Competition
" Preparation is everything. "
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Preparation
" Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off. "
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Future
Striving
" That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit. "
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Life
Good
People
" I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper. "
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" Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim. "
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Able
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" Popovich is always talking about team. "
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" Michael, to me, he was an assassin. He was one of those guys that prepared himself extremely well and was relentless in his attacking. And there are a few guys who have that mentality. I think Kobe Bryant has that type of mentality, and LeBron has that type of mentality. "
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" Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success. "
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Service
" It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely daunting. The looming factor of brain damage, to me, was too strong. "
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" It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short. "
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Year
" Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same. "
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World
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