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My purpose in life, my goal for the NBA is to preach God's word - not just try to beat everybody over the head with a Bible but just being a good example and always conducting myself in a Christian-like manner.

Dwight Howard

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Dwight Howard
Age: 38
Born: 1985
Born: December 8
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I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.
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I just want to show Atalanta who I really am and show my teammates what kind of teammate I am.
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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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That's my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That's really why I play basketball. That's my whole purpose of playing basketball.
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I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.
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I'm a fun person to be around, laid back, love to have fun.
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I do a lot of exercises where I'm so tired that I'm not supposed to do the last rep. What that does is it teaches me that no matter how far I am, how hard I've fallen, I'm never out of the fight. I just take that with me every time I'm in the weight room.
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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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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 was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.
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You really can't please people. I know everybody's attention is on what I'm doing on the floor.
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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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