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" If somebody said, 'You're going to be the Number 1 pick; you're going to have a great team around you all these years'? It would've been too easy. "

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" When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett, two perennial All-Stars, we felt like we had a championship team. "

" I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there. "

" A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union. "

" I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems. "

" Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there. "

" I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars. "

" Everybody knows how much I disliked the Knicks when I was with the Celtics, but I think it's grown to another level. "

" I play a lot of pick-up games; I run a lot on my own. "

" We used to play 'Double Dribble' on Nintendo. Later, in high school, it was more 'NBA Live' and 'John Madden Football.' "

" A lot of people don't know this: when I was young, I wanted to be a garbage man. I asked my mom, and she said they made good money, and it was steady work. "

" You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up. "

" I respect our greats. I admire them. "

" I can't remember last time I had a soda. It tastes like acid to me now. "

" I understand when you have great players on losing teams who are tired of losing, struggling in the playoffs every year. You're the lone star. I've been in that position. "

" I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything. "

" I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework. "

" I love getting up - in the summer, I get up at 5:30, 6 just to go train. "

" When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7. "

" I was a typical K-Swiss guy with sweatsuits. I was a ball player, so the ballers, we wore our game shorts to class. We didn't really have a fashion in high school like other kids. "

" If I had to single one guy out who is the most difficult player to guard in the league, it would have to be Carmelo. "

" Usually, when you win the championship, you party all summer and don't work out. But when I won, I mean, I had my good times, but I used it as motivation to do it again. When you realize you can accomplish something so great, you want to do it again. "

" I respect LeBron. People think we have a hate for each other, but I totally respect what he's done. "

" When Shaq gave me the nickname, it wasn't no Joe-Bob giving you a nickname. This is Shaq. It was like, whoa. "

" When you're not winning in your last couple of years, it gets frustrating because where's your motivation? "

" I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows. "

" I want to see my child grow. "

" People probably won't even remember I played for the Clippers. "

" When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way. "

" It's just something about great players when they play in certain arenas or against other great players. They elevate their play. LeBron is one of those guys. He feels the moment. He understands the moment. "

" The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that. "