Parents

you gotta lead by example. as parents, you gotta lead by example. if you want your kids to do whatever it is they want to accomplish in life, you have to show them, you can't 'talk', you gotta show 'em. That's what I tried to do.

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• I had a purpose, I wanted to be the best basketball player to ever play. and anything else that was outside of that lane, I didn’t have time for.
• “Rest at the end, not in the middle.”
• There’s a lot of answers that I don’t have. Even question that I don’t have. But I’m just gonna keep going, just keep going and I’ll figure these things out as we go.
• I would watch Magic play, I’d watch Michael play, and I would see them do these unbelievable things. and I said, “Can I get to that level?” I don’t know but let’s find out.
• “What does losing feel like to you?” “It's exiting”.
• One of the things I would do is while everybody would be at the cafeteria eating and doing all sorts of stuff, I would just go back to the gym. “Yeah I may be from the suburbs but you’re not gonna outwork me.”
• Like I see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends and they will just take vacations just to take vacations, or just hangout just to hangout. Like I’m not… I never did that. because when I retire I didn’t want to have to say “I wish I would have done more.” I don’t want that.
• Your back can bother you any other day, that shit ain’t bothering me today. We gonna, he gonna have to see me, today.
• This is another obstacle, This obstacle cannot define me, it’s not gonna cripple me, it’s not gonna be responsible for me stepping away from the game that I love. And that’s when the decision was made and you know what “I’m doing it”.
• The definitions of greatness is to inspire the people next to you. It’s not something that lives and dies with one person. It’s how can you inspire a person. to then in turn, inspire another person and then inspires another person. That’s how you create something that I think, last forever.
• And I think that’s our challenge as people is to figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness.