149 Quotes by Gary Payton

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    My oldest brother and my middle brother would always beat me up and take the ball from me. I used to cry a lot, so I used to come in here and get my dad. He used to be on my team, so he used to hold them down and let me score the basket.

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    It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.

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    I became real good friends with John Stockton and Karl Malone and am still good friends with them to this day. It was always good to go see them and then play with them in the 1996 Olympics as well. I idolized John Stockton at the time, I tried to model my game after him.

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    The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

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    I'm not going to sit here and dwell on whether or not I am going to the Hall of Fame.

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    There's a lot of things that I appreciate that people can't appreciate.

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    Tim Hardaway was a guy who had his crossover and then he could shoot a jump shot and he could get to the bucket.

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