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• ‟ When you talk back to me and say something to me it made my game go to another level.

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• ‟ Assistants like Tim Grgurich worked with me and watched film of me from my Oregon State days.

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• ‟ I'm not going to go to a team that's losing. I think that would be disrespectful to me to trade me to somebody like that.

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• ‟ When I went in to Seattle, I had eight veterans who were in the league over six or seven years. That was a plus for me, to teach me how to respect somebody.

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• ‟ Larry Bird was a talker. He'd tell you something and you'd be like, are you kidding me? You're really telling me that?

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• ‟ I've always liked Deron Williams because has the same mentality as me.

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• ‟ You don't hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin' drunk.

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• ‟ I am going to go on with my life, and if they call me and say 'Yo, you are going to be in the Hall of Fame or you are going to be in this,' then I am going to say, 'So be it.' If I make it, I will go to the ceremony, and I'll have fun.

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• ‟ When I was playing, it was me playing both ends of the floor, playing offense, playing defense and I gave the ball up with assists. It wasn't like me doing one thing, scoring 25 and having three assists and one steal.

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• ‟ I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn't want that to happen again, didn't want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.

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• ‟ I didn't grow up admiring anybody but George Gervin, and I didn't get a chance to play against him. That would've been one of my lifetime accomplishments. I probably would've went crazy if I played against him, because he's like a father to me now.

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• ‟ When we were playing, it was rough and tough. Even superstars like me fouled out a lot.

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• ‟ My way is to talk to my opponent so he makes it a personal thing. He starts playing me one-on-one, and forgets about his team. Meanwhile, I'm still playing team ball and eating him up. Some guys tried talking back, but you can't get a talker when a talker's talking to you.

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• ‟ As far as talking on the court was concerned, the whole family was behind me on that.

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