- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who is a post man who's a huge offensive threat, I definitely want to play against to try to limit them to as few points as possible. It's a challenge for me, but I love it though.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really lift consistently before I got to the NBA. In college, I would skip out on it or not do as many reps because, honestly, I didn't like it. I was like 'Man, I'm not going to put on weight, I'm always going to be skinny, I'm not going to be big as the sky.'
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, man, I was a stick in high school. I had a bird chest; I got called that a lot: 'Bird chest.' But I've always been comfortable with my body, even when I was super skinny.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.
- Freshman Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was about 6-foot-3 my freshman year of high school, and after the summer, I was about 6-foot-8. It all happened so fast. I went into the summer being tall, and when I came back, I was a giant. My knees, man, they were throbbing all the time. I couldn't sit in the car for long stretches; my knees felt like they were going to explode.
- Nov 07, 2020
We've mellowed out, man.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, Maxine, was married at 16 to my father Raymond, and in 56 years together, he was the only man she ever had.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be a man who serves my family, a man who increases justice in my community. I want to be all of those things, and yet it is just below the surface that I want to strangle somebody when they cut in front of me on the freeway.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I'm from the Midwest, man - that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play basketball. I play center, and if you haven't watched me play, I'm not a regular big man. I can move my feet. Not saying I can stop anyone out there who's in front of me, but trust me: I can really be a problem on the perimeter guarding somebody.
- I Feel Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One-on-one, I feel like I can't be covered, man.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020