Serge Ibaka Quotes

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Serge Ibaka

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 18, 1989

I'm always helping my family. It's the most important thing.

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I believe in God, and I believe in miracles, and I believe that everything is possible.

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That's one of my favorite things from my dad is his old jersey.

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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.

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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.'

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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.'

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When I don't have basketball practice, I'll be in a gym for 2.5 hours - 30 minutes abs, 2 hours lifting.

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I wish I had more body parts that I could work out. If I had my way, I'd be in the gym all day. I love to lift.

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You can see when people's locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not.

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As an athlete, it's always good when you can do things with the fans, try to connect with the fans.

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That's one thing you can never go wrong as an athlete, try to connect with the fans.

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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.

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That's the culture I come from - we like to dress nice. It is my 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I lost my mom when I was seven, and at some point in my life having food it was like a big deal for me because it was not every day.

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When I think about power, it's not about having money. It's about changing people's lives, changing people's moods. To me, it's a blessing to have that power.

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By the time I was 19 years old, I had lived in five different cities in four different countries and three different continents.

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