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" You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it. "

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" Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible. "

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" Did you really think I would sell you out? "

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" You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good. "

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" Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man. "

" But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something. "

" I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet. "

" I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off. "

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" Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough. "