“I didn’t take constructive criticism the way I should have. When I finally caught up to that, that’s when I went to being the MVP.”

I make all that money and it ain’t enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn’t have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

I don’t really care too much about what people who don’t care about me say about me, but a lot of times, you know, I get tired of defending myself.

Larry Brown molded me into an MVP and a Hall of Fame player.

It was a blessing just to play one NBA basketball game.

Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can’t dress no grown man.

You gotta do what you gotta do. And I had to figure that out, and I used to – I couldn’t stand the media, but I realized they have a job. They gotta do what they have to do.

I can’t take it back. I can’t take anything back. So I don’t regret it.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I’m not the person that the media make me out to be.

I just feel this is my planet.

I couldn’t have accomplished the things in my career if I didn’t practice, and the worst part about that whole thing is when a kid comes up to me and says ‘Allen, I don’t like practice, either.’ I’ve got to straighten that kid right then.

Just because you put a guy in a tuxedo doesn’t make him a good guy.

I want to play basketball so bad.

I don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, man.

Tattoos, cornrows, headbands, hip-hop. I never meant to start any trends. I got my butt kicked, but if that meant that the guys who came after me could be themselves, then it was worth it.

We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world.

Criticism is not construction, it is observation.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.

To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.