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Shaq was a great physical specimen. I mean, 7 foot, 350 pounds. There wasn't anybody like him.

~David Robinson

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I see these college kids taking these crazy shots, and it's like, taking that shot is going to leave you without a job. You're not Steph Curry.

~David Robinson

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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'

~David Robinson

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In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.

~David Robinson

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You have to raise your game, you have to be ready to compete, and you've just got to give Hakeem credit. He was great. He really was great.

~David Robinson

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You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.

~David Robinson

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What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.

~David Robinson

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It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.

~David Robinson

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You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.

~David Robinson

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Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same.

~David Robinson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: August 6th, 1965

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