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“You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.”
“I made myself into what I thought was a big-time player, and nobody in L.A. seemed to care or believe I was any good. When I started hearing I wouldn't play in college, I would just let it simmer inside me and then be like, 'Okay. That's what you think? Okay.' The number zero was the only way I could express that.”
“I feel like most ex-NBA players don't embrace the team they played for.”
“As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I'm the opposite. I don't take any crap.”
“I can lack communication with people. I shy away from everybody. I always want to be alone.”
“Boundaries? What are those?”
“At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.”
“They didn't say all wins in the NBA are all pretty.”
“You don't wear leather bucket hats in Vegas.”
“When I was little, whenever I got out of the shower, I never wanted to touch the floor because once you touch the floor, your feet are dirty again. So in the shower, I used to put my socks on already without drying them off.”
“I have a pair of my signature shoes, and I can't believe I got my own shoe. That's amazing!”
“I never imagined that I would see my face on the cover of an EA Sports videogame.”
“I don't sleep. I nap.”
“When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand - that's how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something.”
“I know it's hard when guys leave the game. They're sitting there analyzing, and they're getting itchy.”
“If you like Five Guys burgers, and you're in California, I was one of the people who helped bring it here.”
“That's all I drink is Vitamin Water.”
“We know that if we play our game and execute, then we are going to have a lot of success.”
“I'm a shooter. You don't lose your shooting touch.”
“We're humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.”