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People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Dwight Howard

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Dwight Howard
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: December 8
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Basketball Player
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Dwight David Howard Jr.
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When I'm smiling, I'm supposedly not taking the game seriously. When I'm not smiling, then it's like, He don't care. He's just out there.
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Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.
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The biggest thing is always being around people that are going to lift you up and not bring you down. That's why I prayed for God to send me some good friends. He's done that. I don't really have a lot of friends, but the friends I do have are great.
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I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.
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I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.
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The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.
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But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.
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Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.
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God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.
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