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" When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million. "
David Robinson
Start
Million
Thinking
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" Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions. "
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" 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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You
Positive
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" 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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Brain
Always
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" 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. "
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Unity
Sweet
" A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before. "
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Voice
Leadership
Start
" The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are. "
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You
Team
" Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him. "
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Mean
Foot
" 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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War
World
Hero
" 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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Grandfather
Grit
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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. "
David Robinson
Look
You
Year
" I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen. "
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Saw
Happen
Naive
" If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things. "
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Me
Better
Care
" 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
" 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. "
David Robinson
Sports
Boat
Competition
" You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp. "
David Robinson
Mistakes
Three
Team
" Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim. "
David Robinson
Believe
Able
Swim
" 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.' "
David Robinson
Look
Feel
Care
" 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. "
David Robinson
Like
Men
Think
" 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. "
David Robinson
You
Great
Got
" 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. "
David Robinson
Help
Learning
People
" 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. "
David Robinson
Children
Future
Striving
" 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. "
David Robinson
Home
Success
Service
" 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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Believe
Poor
Me
" 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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Back
Today
Will
" 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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More
Now
Differently
" 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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Assassin
Me
Relentless
" It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough. "
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Africa
Few
Very
" 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. "
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Games
Without
Only
" In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him. "
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Think
Achieve
Heights
" 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. "
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Service
Experience
Great