Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

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• When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

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  Might Use, Remember, Elevators

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• Food - there's no greater gift.

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  Hunger, Greater

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• God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

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  Jobs, Children, Community

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• When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

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  Order, Elevators, Upstairs

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• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

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  Nba, Helping, Chance

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• I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

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  Needs, Forget, Congo

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• It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

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  Children, Winning, Easy

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• Me as a backup center? Hell no.

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  Hell, Backup

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• 24,000 people, 18,000 of them children, die every day because of hunger. Each year we bring food to nearly 90 million people in more than 80 countries. Food - there's no greater gift, and no better way to give it than the World Food Programme.

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  Country, Children, Years

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• I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

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  School, People, Foundation

  "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

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  Fortune, Family Values, Raised

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• When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

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  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

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  Basketball, Years, Nba

  "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

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  Thinking, Doctors, Campaigns

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• I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

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  Philosophy, Party, Believe

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• There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

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  Men, People, Dying

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• My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.

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  Mom, Strong, Dad

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• I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

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  Strong, Uncles, Growing Up

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.

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  Fall, Men, Long

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.

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  Player, Years, Nba

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

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  War, Doctors, Nurse

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• The NBA is becoming a global game.

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  Nba, Games, Becoming

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• My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

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  Organization, Decision, Leaving

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• I know the president is quick. I have friends who played with him during the campaign; they say he's very good. I told the president that whenever the next pickup game is, I'll get on the plane to Washington - but sometimes they play so early in the morning.

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  Morning, Games, Play

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

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  Nba, Organization, Ambassadors

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