Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

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• Me as a backup center? Hell no.
• Food - there's no greater gift...
• 24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than…
• When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!
• I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the…
• When I was born, my dad and my mom gave me names, but in Africa, when your child is born, especially close family members can…
• My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.
• My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in…
• The NBA is becoming a global game.
• I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.
• My mother taught us to sell food in the market so we could pay for school. I would get up at 4:30 A.M. and start…
• The Almighty has plans for us to make a place so we can go on and make a difference. It all has to do with…
• I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to come to the…
• Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.
• After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
• I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who…
• The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has…
• If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a…
• When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best…
• I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

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