Quotes by Robert Covington - Page 1

I like giving back to the community, because it lasts a long time.
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Giving Back
Lasts
Time Community Long
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I have been in slumps before where I've never lost confidence in myself.
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Slump
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I'm a very humble young man. I've always had to work for everything that I had.
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Humble
Young Man
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You can't have a greater person to emulate your game around than Scottie Pippen.
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Emulate
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I've always been working with my rehab people, just to keep my body loose and fluid.
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Fluid
Rehab
Loose
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No matter what, if I'm playing or not playing, I'm still going to be the same person, be that leader.
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What If
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I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be learning stuff.
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Couch
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There's many times people told me I couldn't do something or couldn't work for it - it just made me more hungry.
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Work Me People
Times People
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I've faced adversity countless, countless times throughout my life. One thing I've always preached is keep pushing.
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Adversity
Pushing
Life Always Keep
Countless
Preached
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I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.
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Me Day Doing
Me Day Keep
Enhances
Spirits
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I've always carried the burdens of everyone I love and try to make sure everyone else is good rather than focus on myself.
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Love Good Myself
Burdens
Carried
Everyone Else
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Fans were booing me at one point. I just kept working, that's the main thing. I'm not going to let that deteriorate my game.
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Booing
Deteriorate
Main Thing
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In college I played power forward because I was one of the biggest guys on the team and my versatility allowed me to do that.
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Versatility
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God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you've done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.
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Aspect
Church
Judge
In The Past
Opened
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That's one thing I've really taken in pride in, is becoming that two way player, because that makes me that much more valuable for the team.
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Valuable
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I felt like, honestly, seeing a therapist was kind of weak. But it helps. It helps a whole lot, because it allows you to decompress and restart.
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Weak
Therapist
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Church is definitely still present in my life. Every Sunday I'm tuned in and then throughout the week I read scriptures, I read motivational messages.
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Church
Messages
Sunday
Week
Read
Definitely
Every Sunday
Still
Present
My Life
Scriptures
Throughout
Tuned
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I was one of those kids that my parents had faith in me and I had faith in myself. Anything anybody told me negative, I'd just brush it off and keep moving.
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Faith Myself Me
Brush
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Sometimes I go back and listen to the very first day I went to church. I listen to that sermon all the time, because that was the sermon that was life changing for me.
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Life Time Me
Sermon
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My roots are in Chicago, and ensuring the West Pullman community has the greatest potential to improve long-term health, wellness, economic, and social outcomes is a personal mission.
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Long Term
Outcomes
Roots
Wellness
Ensuring
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My mom laid the foundation that in order for you to be successful, you have to take care of the books first. That's one thing she preached about, because at any point, other stuff can be taken away.
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Laid
Preached
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A lot of people didn't think I would be here. But I put myself in great positions and I always had the mentality that what is meant for me is meant for me. The only person that can stop you is yourself.
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Mentality
Great Myself Me
Positions
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I only had two scholarship offers with Tennessee State being one of them. That put a lot on my shoulders - not having the same opportunities as some other guys I knew - and it didn't feel like many people had much faith in me as a basketball player.
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Basketball Player
Offers
Scholarship
Tennessee
Faith Me People
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Knowing about my body, different aspects of my body, it's been a big thing. It's really helped me as far as injury and whatnot, so I know exactly if something feels funny, I know what I'm capable of doing to help myself get back stronger and get back healthy.
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Funny Myself Me
Aspects
Big Thing
Whatnot
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To be at the forefront of something that can spark a major change as far as kids going to an HBCU and learning about our history and learning about our culture and learning about our ancestors, where we came from - that's a big thing, that's a really big thing.
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Ancestors
Big Thing
Forefront
Spark
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Imagine two years worth of stuff that you've been holding on to and everything just keeps piling up to the point where the pot just overflows. You know what happens when a pot overflows? It hits the side of the pan and it hits the fire and the fire just explodes.
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Holding On
Hits
Holding
Pan
Piling
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