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"I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids."
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"I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate."
"Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball."
"You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore."
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."
"I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball."
"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"
"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
"The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn."
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"Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names."
"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."
"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."
"My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'."
"Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny."
"This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump."
"I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble."
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