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Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Saved
Life God Me
Opened
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The most difficult thing with a new shot is if you go two or three games without making it, or you struggle, and people start saying, 'You can't shoot 3s,' or, 'Why do you shoot 3s?'
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Difficult Thing
Most Difficult Thing
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You can't force people to love you. If you love somebody, you love them because you love them. People who love you, it doesn't matter; if you're good or bad, they will still love you.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Love You
Love Good Bad
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An hour and a half before games, I always eat fruit - a banana, an apple, and an orange - because I'm trying to get natural energy. You get natural sugars and natural energy from that.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Fruit
Orange
Apple
Banana
Hour And A Half
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I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA basketball looked like because we didn't have access to a satellite for TV.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Congo
Magazines
Nba
Nba Basketball
Satellite
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It wasn't until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I'd watch this program called 'NBA Action,' which came on every week and showed clips from different games.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Action
Games
Glimpse
Moved
Nba
Program
Spain
Week
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Defense, in the game, is something that I just really enjoy. Some people enjoy assisting the ball. Some people like to score, score, score, but to me the first thing that comes up is defense.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Assisting
Me Game People
Game Me People
First Thing
The First Thing
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It's a long story, my life, growing up with my dad, my mom when she died, everything. I had bad moments in my life, my dad going to prison, I had nothing, and that's where I got my motivation.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Long Story
Life Dad Mom
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After winning a championship, I learned something about this: To win a championship, you need everybody. You need everybody to be out there, everybody to have confidence to play at a high level.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Championship
High Level
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That's where I get my toughness in mind. From my background when I was young, everything I've been through, everything I was going through in my life. It helped me a lot, it helped me to be strong.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Toughness
Life Mind Me
Background
Be Strong
Helped
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I know people that was playing basketball better than me. If they were in the NBA, they could be All-Stars, those people. They just never had the opportunity to go play professional basketball in Europe.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Nba
Opportunity Me Better
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Where I come from, dressing is a culture. When I go back home, I cannot dress bad. I cannot miss, or people will be like, 'What's going on with you, Serge? Did you lose your mind, or what?' That's the culture.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Home
Did
Miss
Dressing
Lose
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I like to always be able to contest shots. If you play against a player like Al Jefferson - he likes to pump-fake, so you need to be alert and quick. If he pump-fakes you and you go up, when you come back you need to go right back up to contest his shot.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Al
Alert
Back Up
Contest
Jefferson
Quick
Right Back
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When you are a young player in the NBA, sometimes you don't pay much attention to some of the cities you visit, especially in cold places like Toronto. But when you spend more time in the league you learn more about the cities you play in, and learn how to appreciate them more.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Nba
Toronto
Much Attention
Visit
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At first, I wanted to be a good player in the NBA. When I get to a team where you have one of the two best scorers in the league, I just said to myself that I needed to do something. I need to do something to help my team, something to make my name. That's where I started to focus on defense.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Nba
Best Good Myself
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When I say about 'dream is free,' I don't only mean about basketball or to be in the NBA like Serge Ibaka. No. I mean in general, in anything you do. You can do anything you want, anything you dream about. You can do it. You just have to know the dream is free. And dream is free for everybody.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Dream
Basketball
Nba
You Can Do It
General
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When I was 16 I took the first opportunity I had to play basketball in a different country. I flew to Europe for the first time and found myself in the small town of Macon, in France. That was the first time I lived far away from my people, from my culture. I was young and had to adapt quickly.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Basketball
Europe
Far Away
First Time
Flew
France
Small Town
Adapt
Time Myself Opportunity
Play Basketball
Quickly
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I didn't know there was an NBA draft. But in my mind, I was always telling myself, one day, 'I'm going to be in professional basketball.' And I believed it. One day, I will. I believe this every day. I think about this every day. I was going to do whatever I had to do to be there. And it comes true.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Nba
Myself Believe Mind
Myself Believe Always
Draft
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When it's time to dress, I have to think. I have to envision myself in a certain outfit. The night before, when I go to bed, I close my eyes and start thinking about the outfit I'm going to wear tomorrow: all the colors, the fabrics, how it's going to look. It's about putting the whole thing together.
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Time Myself Eyes
Colors
Envision
Fabrics
Outfit
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I had a poster of Kevin Garnett hanging in my room. He was one of my inspirations when I was young. I was at my friend's house - he had a lot of money, so sometimes I'd go to his place to watch some NBA action. I remember the first time I saw Kevin Garnett, I just felt something in my body: 'This feels like me.'
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Nba
Time Money Me
Inspirations
Poster
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My father was always pushing me to become a basketball player. In Africa, when you're a kid, every kid loves to play soccer, and I loved playing soccer. But my dad didn't want me playing soccer. He would joke, 'C'mon, man, you're too tall!' Then he promised me, 'If you start playing basketball, I'm going to give you my jersey.'
Serge Ibaka / Basketball Player
Basketball Player
Jersey
Pushing
Soccer
Dad Man Father
Loved Playing
Promised
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