Vlade Divac

Basketball gave me everything.

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One year I grew 15 centimeters.

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It's really tough in the NBA.

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I like baseball.

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I play for peace and love.

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I can't be against my people.

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Wins heal everything.

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In NBA anything is possible.

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I don't enjoy playing against Shaq.

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Success in sport comes with responsibility.

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When you do something bad, you can't sleep.

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I would just like the people of Yugoslavia to live good.

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It's good for basketball to grow.

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Am I perfect? Not at all. I'm just like everybody else.

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I don't drive Yugo anymore, I drive Porsche.

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I had a beautiful life as a basketball player.

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We take life... we should take it more seriously, because you never know what's going to happen tomorrow.

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I'm sure my life after basketball is, hopefully, going to be even better.

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Since the age of 12, I was on my own. Everything I do, I get my parents' support.

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When I decided to come to Sacramento, all my friends thought I was crazy. They said they still have cows and sheep…

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I played basketball because I loved the game. I played because I was making a lot of friends around the world... It's…

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Shaq wasn't talented - he was just strong. I was talented, but I wasn't strong.

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Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game.

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Yugoslavia is a little country, and everybody likes basketball. If I don't play for my national team, everybody be sad.

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It was a lovely story that I finished my career with Kobe, with somebody who I was traded for. I have a…

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I thought, 'I'm going to play in Yugoslavia, then I'll go to play in Italy or Spain.' Then I'll be 28 or…

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I had to earn the respect from everybody, from referees to opponents, but my teammates, they saw some European guy coming here…

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Basketball is like life and life is like basketball. It's just a game. So lets play the best we can while we…

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I am thankful to the Kings organization, all the Kings fans, my family and all the people who supported me throughout my…

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Sacramento and the Kings organization were always in my thoughts and I often dreamed of having a role in helping our amazing…

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Kobe made an impact on basketball in a big way. He came in the League when he was 17 years old, but…

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Because I play in NBA, I am like ambassador of Yugoslavia. Los Angeles before, nobody hear of Yugoslavia. Now I think much…

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I came here and actually fell in love with Charlotte and the Hornets. That's exactly what happened to me. I found a…

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Just like in life, when you play basketball, you have to give in order to receive. On the court, you're not only…

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First of all, I would love to see people remember me as a good passer, not as a good flopper. But flopping…

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I'm a Yugoslavian who loves America - my kids are Americans, you know. They're always going to be half and half because…

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My generation started in big tournaments. '88 Olympics, we got silver. '89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina,…

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In the early '80s there was a big gap between the NBA and the international game and when we started making our…

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The year when I left my country, there was still peace. The year after, the war broke out, a lot of people…

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I just think positive and positive things usually happen.

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