And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
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Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
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I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
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I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
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I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.
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I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.
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I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
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I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
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If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
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If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
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If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
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In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
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In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.
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One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.
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One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
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That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
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The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
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There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
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When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
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When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
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When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
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