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" Obviously, I'm not working out the way I was when I was playing. I do yoga. I swim a lot. I'm drinking a lot of good, healthy mixes. I got myself a Vitamix. "

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" You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking. "

" 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. "

" I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen. "

" 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. "

" I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry. "

" 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. "

" I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve. "

" I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit. "

" A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Tanzania sells about 50 million pounds of coffee a year to coffee-shop chains such as Starbucks and Peet's. But Sweet Unity is the only finished, branded product from the East African country to be sold directly in the U.S. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book. "

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" I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy. "

" Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities. "

" Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal. "

" I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" We went through a nice stretch of big guys. But soon, everyone is going to realize that there's only one Steph Curry. "

" Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.' "