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You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.
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Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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Most proud moment: Winning the championship in 2003 with a great team, retiring, and going out in the perfect way. Had a great journey and knowing it was the right time to focus more on family and community activities.
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Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.
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My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service.
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When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.
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A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.
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My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.
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Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
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We went through a nice stretch of big guys. But soon, everyone is going to realize that there's only one Steph Curry.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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USNA had a great engineering school, which was one of my interests, and I knew I would benefit from the great discipline and accountability that Navy provides.
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I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.
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If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.
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All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.
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You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.
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That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
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I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
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If you forget your history, you forget who you are.
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This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets.
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Marc Gasol, he's more of a true center. There are guys who play that traditional center role, but the game is also played differently now.
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I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.
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Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.
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