If you’re struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.
Mistakes happen. But after a while you’ve got to stop making them happen twice.
My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don’t, then believe what you hear and run with that.
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.
I play every game like it’s my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
It’s unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn’t want to have their child booed. Fans don’t understand our lives and what we go through. They don’t look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.
I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn’t doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could.
I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.
Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.
People think that I’m some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain’t me.
You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.
When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn’t be in the NBA.
Being an All-Star is everything.
Only the strong survive.
I believe in my heart I’m the best player in the world. I’m just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I’m just confident in my ability to play ball.
Man, people have been waiting for me to fall off my whole career. From the first time I stepped on the court. It probably made people sick to their stomachs watching my whole career, watching the things that I’ve done in my career.
I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.
Personally I just want to win a championship.
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.