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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 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 don't need to be in New York. If you've had a bad game, they're booing you and all that mess.
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To Seattle, Washington, the SuperSonics organization and its fans, the best owners ever in the Ackerley family, I love you. But the best part is that you loved me back.
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I've done everything - All-Stars, Olympics. The only thing I haven't done is win MVP of the league. There's nothing else I haven't accomplished.
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Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense.
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I was guarding the best player and getting 25 and having eight assists, and three-four steals.
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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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You make sacrifices. You sacrifice yourself. Do you want to possibly win a championship? Or do you want to be the same person you were when you were 20 and get those same numbers?
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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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I think if you ask any young guy if they would want a career like Gary Payton, they would tell you yes.
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I've done did a lot of things in the NBA, made a lot of stuff, so I'm happy with what I've done.
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If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.
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It's always going to have an effect when your father comes up and scolds you in front of a lot of people.
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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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It's just a great honor to even be associated with the Hall of Fame and get in. If I eventually do make it, it will be a great honor, and I don't care if it's the first or second time because it's an honor for anyone to make the Hall of Fame.
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Money and all that stuff doesn't equal a ring, because you'll always be in the books as winning a championship and being on one of the best teams ever to play the game.
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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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Kobe Bryant, to me, is still the best basketball player in my mind. He played with me and he was in my era. I still love him to death. He's a little brother to me.
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George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.
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People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing.
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I was really scared when I went to Oregon State. I wasn't sure I could play at the college level.
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I'm not going to sit here and dwell on whether or not I am going to the Hall of Fame.
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In my day I think the toughest was Derek Harper. The old-school Derek Harper. He was tough. He had the most toughest, nastiest game ever. I hated playing against him because he would always try to rip you, and try to talk to you. People just didn't really know that about Derek Harper. I used to hate bringing the ball up against him, really.
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This is what kids want to see. You see these Playstations, they scoring 50 and 60 with one player, that's what they want to see on TV and I don't go with that.
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My dad was known as a mean guy. He never smiled, and he had 'Mr. Mean' put on his license plate. But he was one of the neighborhood dads who looked out for everyone. He would take kids in and help them out.
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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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I like Draymond Green's intensity... but every time I didn't get a call I didn't cry all the time.
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Because of how I am on the court, people think I'm wild and crazy. But really, I'm a kick-back guy, so Seattle suits me fine.
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Tim Hardaway was a guy who had his crossover and then he could shoot a jump shot and he could get to the bucket.
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