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Kevin Garnett, born in May 1976, is a renowned basketball player. Known for his exceptional defense and all-around skills, he played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Boston Celtics, and Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. Garnett won the NBA championship with the Celtics in 2004 and was named to the NBA All-Star team multiple times.

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“Diversity always makes me happy.”

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“The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.”

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“At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.”

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“Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.”

Basketball Boston Drills

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“Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.”

Want Littles Jobs Difficult Loses Basketball Bills Flip Blair

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“'Modern Warfare,' 'Black Ops,' these are all the next level of video games. The people are more detailed, the fighting is more exact, and I can't speak for every gamer out there, but I know when I play, I feel like I'm actually in the game. It's that intense.”

People Knows Feels I Can Play Fighting Next Games Speak Black Levels Modern Intense Video Warfare Gamer Next Level Modern Warfare

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“This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.”

War Funny House Ready Couple Sitting Nba Joints Marble Missiles Pumps Grenade

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“I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.”

People Ifs I Can Games Like Me

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“Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.”

Want Player Teaching Coaching Versus

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“I don't play to sweat, I play to win.”

Play Winning Sweat Play To Win

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“There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.”

Light Waiting Red Frustrated Red Lights

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“I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.”

Guy Individual Process Competition Driven Learning Process Accolades

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“I want to be known as the best teammate ever.”

Want Known Teammate Best Team

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“I think when you get tired of something or someone annoys you, there's two things you can do. You can ignore it and keep going, or you can stand up and say stop.”

Thinking Tired Keep Going Annoying

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“When you first come out, it's transition. You gotta find your routine, days you don't feel like doing it, you don't have to do it. But you know, it's in you. I like to think anyone wants to look good, I'm no different from that. More importantly, I wanna be healthy enough to run with my kids.”

Thinking Different Enough Running Kids Healthy

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“If anybody knows me, knows that I'm a workhorse, not just on the floor, but psychologically. I meditate a lot, I like to get massages, do yoga. I like to keep a balance.”

Balance Yoga Know Me Massage

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“In my walks of life, I've understood that it takes more than one person to think of achieving a goal, and it takes more than one or two players, to get you out of the position you're in.”

Thinking Goal Player Achieve

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“I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.”

Ifs Ready Basketball Red Not Ready Reindeer Rudolph Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

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“Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.”

Knows Player One Thing Basketball Coaches Flip Minnesota Great Relationship Point Guard

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“I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.”

Thinking Stills Basketball Coaches League Get Back Flip

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“So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.”

Thinking Want Done Lasts Turns Nice Pride Months Right Now Basketball Starting Rhythm

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“The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.”

Lasts Practice Couple Basketball Communicate Drills

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“They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.”

Basketball Bread Aggressive Roaches

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“Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Morning Hell Too Much Basketball Tired Coffee Gatorade

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“We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.”

Thinking Knows Matter Order Turns Responsibility Basketball Weight Coaches Assistants Trainers

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“So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.”

Way Guy Player Perspective Basketball Coaches Nba

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“We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.”

Sports Impossible

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“Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you.”

Ifs Knows Giving Talking Taste Concern Cooks Heat Chemistry Timing Frying Microwaves Frying Pans Timing Is Everything Tortillas

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“This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.”

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“The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.”

People Thinking Years Hard Can Do Too Much Pride Competition Everyday Crafts Owners Naysayers

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“I'm not a star, man. If a guy came in here and shot you and shot me, we'd both be two dead people. You understand?”

People Ifs Men Two Guy Stars Shots Dead People

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“They say no matter how hard you work, there's always someone, somewhere working harder then you. Guess what.. I'm that someone”

Matter Hard Harder

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“It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.”

People Believe Next Water Cities Gone One Day Scary Scar Next Day

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“I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.”

Giving Persons Type Giving Up Rough Coward

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“I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.”

People Giving Sports Perception Bottom Shoes

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“Coaching takes patience.”

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“I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.”

Thinking Way Humans Term Human Beings Perfect

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“I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.”

Sometimes Problem Hyper

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“I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.”

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“I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.”

Knows Simple Flash Glamour Glitz

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“Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?”

Want Looks Different Performances Strive

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“Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.”

Has Beens Games Enjoy Video Spares Gamer Spare Time Playing Video Games

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“Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.”

Littles My Friends Scared

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“Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don't ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.”

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Author:Kevin Garnett

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Born: May 19, 1976
Known for: Basketball player
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