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The thing I really want to do is make the All-Star team and have an All-Star season. If I do that, then I know my team is going to be winning.

Of course you want people to notice you're back, and you're playing well just to be respected. Because I was an All-Star, a first-team All-NBA guy. But I don't need the media putting a spotlight on me.

You wanted to compete against Michael Jordan, because they were the best. You wanted to beat them. Never once in my mind, I went, 'I would love to play with him.' I was always like, 'Man, we've got to beat them.'

I'm so appreciative of Orlando. I am Orlando. Orlando made me. So when people link my name, they link my name to Orlando and nowhere else. I'll always be indebted to Orlando for that and grateful at the same time.

It's just hard to watch isolation basketball.

Jerry Sloan was a guy that I always respected, but I thought he was mean. Like, he was a guy that was just no nonsense. When coach and I got closer during the Olympics, I said, 'Coach, I always just thought you were this mean guy, but it was really nice to get to know you and your family.'

I want to contribute in any fashion to a great team.

I'm so thankful and blessed for the Heat organization.

I wasn't able to explode, jump, run - not even walk without pain being in the back of my leg. Every time I bent my leg, even in a walking motion, I was wondering what was wrong with me. But I stuck with it.

That's my job as a veteran in the league - to help make the young guys better.

It's fun coming back home, playing against the Grizzlies and to have the opportunity to come back and see my family.

I wore No. 25 in college, so naturally when I arrived in Orlando, I wanted that number, but Nick Anderson had it. I decided to go with No. 1 because of my name, Penny.

When you accomplish certain levels of success in a number, you want that number to always be a part of you. In a way, you're bringing that success with you when you're wearing it.

My microfracture was handled like a routine arthroscopic surgery. They thought it was a 6-to-8 week deal. Now we know, from Amare Stoudemire to Kenyon Martin, that it's a longer deal.

Orlando is my history.

It's a huge honor to be put in the Hall of Fame... it's even better because I played there for six years, and I left on bad terms. To be able to come back and be recognized - in hindsight, I wish I would have stayed, because everyone understands my career was large in Orlando.

I want to leave a mark on society.

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

My brain never stops thinking about basketball, and even when I'm asleep, I'm thinking about basketball. I love it; I love the Xs and Os and the preparation of it.

I feel like I can play point guard for any team in the league and average a double-double.

I want to finish my career on a high note.

I was as popular as you can be - All-NBA, Olympian. You couldn't get any higher than where I was.

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

A lot of the kids gave a lot of positive feedback about if I ever became a coach, they would love to play in our program. And I was very confident that we would be able to get the top-tier players to come in.

I want the opportunity to play pain-free.

I just want to win.

Personally, I just want to stay healthy.

With Shaq, you have to let him know that he's the man. You have to do that with him.

Injuries made people lose confidence in me, but I never lost confidence in myself.

I can scream and yell that I can still play, but unless I prove it, people will say, 'Yeah, Penny, whatever.'

If I've learned anything, it's that you can't take anything for granted.

I can pass on a lot of information. I'm just never going to be the 21-year-old Penny Hardaway again.

People didn't want to accept that I was injured. I played on a bad knee, a really bad knee, for a long time. I actually put team before me and played when I was hurt, but people still would dog me.

There's the hardest thing - when you cannot be as athletic or perform at a level you really want to. Your mind is telling you, but your body is not allowing you.

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

I don't know who Rick Barnes thinks I am, but I'm not a dude that likes to just mess around about anything.

I just call it like I see it.

I keep myself in shape. I love the game of basketball, and I really feel like it doesn't matter about your age.

For sure, I definitely feel like there's a target on my back.

I'm getting used to this as a coach because it's a little jealousy from a lot of these coaches around the country. I do understand that, because we are NBA players trying to come back, and we didn't have any experience as college coaches. So we didn't, quote, unquote, 'Pay our dues.'

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.

I didn't do it the traditional way of being an assistant first and then becoming a head coach.

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