I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks.
People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.
I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.
I think the world of Dave Griffin. I worked with him in Phoenix, got to know him very well, and consider him a friend.
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
During summer or charity games I'll wear my bright orange or green or turquoise ones and guys are always like, 'Why are your shoes so bright?'
I have an iPhone, too, but I use the Blackberry more because I'm addicted to BBM'ing. I'm also on Twitter 24/7 and it's a lot easier on the BlackBerry.
What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames; I'm really into them.
I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.
Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.
I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don't feel my game resembles his though.
I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.
But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.
