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Vegas is my town, my people.
I'm a big Jeff Van Gundy fan.
I love to drive and run the floor.
It hurts to lose night after night.
Charlie Ward was the best dude ever.
I feel I was born to play basketball.
I only won one national championship.
I'm fond of New York, I've always been.
My main goal is to win me a championship.
My five years in New York were unbelievable.
I was a country boy from Texas and I love eating.
I better make the All-Star team, and I better start.
If I'm going to get suspended, I want to hit the guy.
New York fans want a winner. They strive for a winner.
I can't continue to have one good game and six bad ones.
The key for me is the way I take care of myself off the floor.
MSG is the world's greatest arena, and New York is so competitive.
No question, everybody knows my back was the main reason I retired.
No one man can rise above the masses or the condition of his people.
In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn't happen.
Maybe I'm a little biased, but I thought I could always play defense.
Saw the best boxer, pound for pound: Roy Jones. Not a lot of hype, though.
Hey, I'm just another guy coming out of JC. That's the way I think of myself.
What I do in the off season that hurts me is I take a month off and I do nothing.
If I don't like a person and a person doesn't like me fine, that's mutual respect.
You can't ever get to the point where you don't think you can learn anything more.
This is a beautiful country, the best country, but it's not holy, it's not righteous.
Most people lose weight during the season, but I tend to gain weight during the season.
It's important to get some balanced scoring on the floor. For me, I've got to make shots.
My personal goal was to get back to my true form, and my true form is an All-Star player.
If I put on any pressure. I put it on myself. Nobody else puts pressure on Larry Johnson.
I think I'm caught up in playing in New York. Here, my mind is cluttered worrying about things.
I play basketball because I like it, but the most important thing I want to do is help my family.
In Dallas, I eat bean soup and bean pies every day. On Saturdays, I treat myself to a veggie pizza.
I just have to keep working, just stay on top of my game, stay on top of my weight and stay prayed up.
I thought I was academically prepared for a major college, but I wasn't. Odessa gave me that preparation.
If I'm on fire, don't spit on me. I won't spit on you. That's respect. You go your way, and I'll go mine.
I just don't want my offense to carry over to my defense. I want to help the team win and be a team player.
I can remember my jersey being the No. 1 seller for like two years, and I think it was the color of the jersey.
I've turned down several assistant jobs in the NBA that I just didn't feel good about. I would love it at UNLV.
Did you ever watch the movie 'A Raisin in the Sun?' That lady was my mom, she was the spitting image of my mom.
Once your back's up against the wall and you've been beat down, you start looking at trying to do the right thing.
Offense is one phase of the game. You have to be able to play the other phases of the game and help your team win.
I'm always on the players' side, of course. The owners are going to take their fill, but I'm always on the players' side.
I have always wanted to spend my entire career in the Charlotte community and concentrate on bringing the city a championship.
Most of the power forwards in the NBA are 6'10', 6'11', making it difficult for a player at 6'7', 6'8' to the play the position.
If it's a nationally televised game in the past, and I've been scoring 6, 7 and 8 points, I feel like I had a bad game in my mind.
After a basketball game, you're gonna be physically tired, but more mentally. Playoff time comes around, you have it all in your head.
There's a roller coaster effect when you're playing good. Everything seems to go your way. But once you start playing bad, you're playing bad.
After I signed my big contract, I expected to be in Charlotte for the rest of my career. Things just didn't work out. Now I'm with the Knicks.