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“My hopes and dreams are to be in the Hall of Fame one day.”
“In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.”
“When you watch the old NBA, one thing is for sure, you will see more fights, a little more talking, bigger guys, bigger bodies.”
“If I read an article and believed everything a guy said about me, I'd believe I was the best person in the world or the worst person in the world, so I can't go off what some guy says about me. I only go off what happens to me.”
“Basically take care of your game, and your game will speak for itself.”
“I make sure I stay in full contact with the kids. It is my responsibility to make sure these guys are taken care of and loved. That's what I have to do and will continue to do.”
“My love for the game is very, very high.”
“I'm not going to sit here and tell anybody I haven't had difficulties in my life, haven't made any bad decisions. But to sit back and consider myself a bad person or not doing something positive, it's so untrue.”
“I get excited after I dunk. I yell and scream, but it's not yelling and screaming at other players to show them up. It's the way I play. What I do is have fun on the court.”
“A lot of times, the spectacular play the fans see is not always what I tried to do. It just happens.”
“I just want to get as far away from Indiana as possible.”
“I've played eight years and gotten better each season.”
“People enjoy the game of basketball, so if you're not smiling, the fans are not going to smile. You can't go around mean-mugging everybody at every game.”
“I don't know when, or how, but I feel it: Basketball will come back to Seattle.”
“People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.”
“Anytime you struggle, people are always going to say something.”
“I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.”
“I like to try to get around the younger generation to just encourage them. But I've always been afraid of coaching because I was always hard on myself as a player.”
“The NBA fits my game.”
“You don't work your butt off for 90 yards of a 100-yard dash and then just quit.”