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Hakeem Olajuwon

"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

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"I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home."

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Akiroq Brost

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

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"I like home. It's warm and there are books."

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

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"No guest rooms. I shake my head resolutely. "I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room."

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"My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home."

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"I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight."

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"I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine."

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"Nothing brings home closer than going home..."

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"When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters."

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"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa."
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"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me."
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"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?"
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"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."
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"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."
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