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" When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight. "

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" You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family. "

" As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none. "

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" I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet. "

" I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good. "

" You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside. "

" And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. "

" I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit. "

" One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses. "

" In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life. "

" When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think. "

" Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed. "

" I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity. "

" If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem. "

" I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. "

" To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win. "

" If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. "

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" That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned. "

" Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them. "

" When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it. "

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" If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers. "

" I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect. "

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" I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life. "