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I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

- David Robinson
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It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.

My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that.

Obviously, I'm not working out the way I was when I was playing. I do yoga. I swim a lot. I'm drinking a lot of good, healthy mixes. I got myself a Vitamix.

All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.

I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.

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I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.

I was probably a naive youth, but I saw that I could make things happen.