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Hakeem Olajuwon

"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."

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Donna Grant

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."

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Donna Grant

"I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have."

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Donna Grant

"At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers."

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Donna Grant

"I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems."

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Donna Grant

"I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read."

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Donna Grant

"It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me."

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Donna Grant

"By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion."

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Donna Grant

"I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car."

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Donna Grant

"I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital."

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Donna Grant

"In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality."

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions."

Talent

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

Skill

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"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."

Home

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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."

Home

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention."

Attention

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"I always keep a ball in the car. You never know."

Car

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try."

Basketball

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"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."

People

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Hakeem Olajuwon
"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?"

Man

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