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Alonzo Mourning
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 8
Basketball Player
Chesapeake
Virginia
Alonzo Harding Mourning
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There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.
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My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.
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I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
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I can still play this game at a high level I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
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I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.
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If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.
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You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
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I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
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I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.
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There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.
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I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.
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You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.
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I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.
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I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.
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I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.
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I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.
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I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.
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I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
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Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today he could do anything.
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If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
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