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I love the Chinese people.
My numbers are Hall of Fame.
I had to deal with so many haters.
Im the best point guard in the NBA.
New York basketball is about defense.
I'm a real Knick fan, not a fake fan.
Nothing wrong with wanting to go home.
Consistency is always the best teacher.
I've always watched the NBA growing up.
Me playing for the Knicks is not realistic.
When in doubt, shoot. That's how I look at it.
Losing exposes character, and winning breeds it.
The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.
New York is a Show Me state. We're like Missouri.
The great point guards make everybody else better.
I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.
My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.
Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years.
The NBA and college are two totally different games.
I will never close the door that has not been opened.
When you're a good person, good things happen to you.
Carmelo Anthony is one of the best players in the NBA.
My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.
You have to have a lot of good players to win a championship.
You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.
One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.
I drink life's happy water, which is bottled at the divine source.
I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.
I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.
From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.
Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.
I have three championships in a country where I don't speak the language.
Whenever you've got an inside presence, it makes the game extremely easy.
I want to make sure that people can always have affordable shoes to wear.
When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.
If I didn't play the way how I played, I wouldn't have gotten no max contract.
For me, my Beijing jersey will be the jersey that I will retire here in China.
Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.
All those places that I've played at is a preparation for me to come to Beijing.
I've been through a lot of different things, experienced a lot of different things.
People ask me about China all the time. You gotta come to China to see for yourself.
When I was younger, I had a different disposition as far as how I wanted to live life.
I learned more in that first year in the NBA than I could have in four years of college.
When you're happy, and you're smiling people don't like that. That's why I smile all the time.
It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.
You leave America, then you go someplace else, you begin to create something totally different.
Everyone starts the playoffs with the same record. It doesn't matter who won 70 games or whatever.
When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.
I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.
I always watched Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and I said I could be playing on the court with them.