David Lee Quotes

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David Lee

Profession : Physicist

Birth : January 20, 1931

I gained a lot of respect for guys that are able to be able to be career guys at the end of the bench.

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The legacy that I'm going to leave in this game and what kind of attitude I have toward the game and being a positive guy to my teammates, that became more important to me than what my points and rebounds looked like.

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I don't care about numbers. I can get 30 points pretty much anytime I want. I get satisfaction from winning.

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Anybody can go out and have a couple good games. But to produce game in and game out is the most difficult thing in this league. I feel like I've done that.

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I'm very confident in my own abilities.

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I feel a lot better being over-prepared than under-prepared.

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I'm motivated by fear of failure a lot of times.

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I'm not the best defender in the world, but I'm going to compete.

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Whoever plays against me has to match my intensity. That's something I take great pride in.

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I'm just happy I ended up in New York. It's funny because growing up, I used to play 'NBA Jam' all the time, and I would play as the Knicks. I was a huge Michael Jordan fan, and I would always be mad because he wasn't in the game. I would play as Charles Oakley and Patrick Ewing and just rough everybody up.

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I'm going to play harder than the guy going against me, that's how I've always felt. That's the way I go out and try to play every game.

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I used to collect basketball cards and baseball cards growing up.

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I always had bad luck with collecting cards. I never got the ones I was after. I would open the pack looking for Michael Jordan and end up with some guy I already had off the end of the bench.

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I started my career inactive sometimes and barely played.

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I've pretty much played every role.

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I've been on bad teams, I've been on good teams - great teams even. And I ended my career as the first big man off the bench for some really good teams and enjoyed that role.

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As I've gotten older in the NBA, I'm one of the more experienced guys and kind of know what to do in every situation - whether I can execute that or not is another story - but I know what to do.

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There are ups and downs to the season and how you handle those things emotionally is huge.

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Faith has become a much bigger part of my life.

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The thing I want to continue to improve on is my defense. I've shown at times that I'm capable of doing a good job on big-time players.

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