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“I am not a savior.”
“I can play full-court or half-court. It doesn't make any difference.”
“My thing is to just go out and play.”
“I've always thought I could shoot from the outside.”
“It was just one of those things that, you know, you get to the NBA and have success and you just wanna play against the best, you don't wanna play with the best.”
“I played so many years without having a big contract, to have the big contract and not win and not have the appreciation, it hurt.”
“It'll be a challenge for me to come in and fit with a team that's already good.”
“I'm not coming back to play basketball for any financial reasons.”
“Most of the time when you're going for a championship, unless you have guys who are willing to sacrifice, you're not going to win it.”
“You can't be a losing team and get a new arena. That's not fair. That's not fair! That's how I see it.”
“I learned so much from the people in Seattle. They taught me everything from community to business relationships.”
“I'm relentlessly aggressive.”
“I always say, 'When things are quiet, you know something is going on.'”
“I love Karl Malone.”
“I'm all for doing positive. I've worked in the community. My wife, she's spending her life basically giving back to the community. That's something that we take pretty seriously, man.”
“I wasn't in the right place at Kentucky, and I don't think I ever would have been comfortable in college.”
“My lifestyle is probably not quite what people would expect it to be.”
“Making it to the Finals was the hardest work. You have to go out and play the physical and mental game.”
“I was known for a lot of dunks, but my first big dunk really came here in New York. I had some others back then, but my first major dunk came against the Knicks and Kenny 'Sky' Walker. So, you know, New York has a lot of meaning to me.”
“You never let what someone says bring you down. If you do that, you'd be a chump in this world.”