Dwight Howard
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139 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Dwight Howard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I got to stay focused. I got to work out. I can't go out and party, do all the things that people in high school might do. I can't do that. I got to wake up at 4 o'clock. I got to get to the track, the gym. All these things were things that I planned out and prepared myself for before I even went to the NBA. So now when my name was called, one, it was an expectation.
Two, it was a knowing, not a belief. Those are two different things to me. It was annoying. I knew that I was going to heaven. I knew that I was going to the NBA. I knew that I was going to be the first pick in the draft. I just didn't kind of have this, I believe so, you know, I think. No, I know. The confidence. I know. Like, I know Jesus is real. I know what God did for my life.
These things, it's a different mindset. The mindset of all people. Like, we have to go from this. Oh, I think so. I believe so. To no. I know. And once you have that I know mindset, anything in life is possible. I know I can do this. I know I can. I think I can. I know I can. That's my favorite book, The Little Engine That Could. That's all he said in the whole book. I know I can. I think I can.
I know I can. And that was my thought process from 10 to 18. I know I can. Every time I played against somebody, I know I can beat them. And that mindset just stuck with me even to this day.
Because I just had a deeper understanding of what basketball was, the purpose of basketball. The purpose of basketball was to bring me closer to Christ. I took that as, okay, if I'm going to work hard every day, my faith says I'm going to the NBA. My faith is I want to be the number one pick. My faith is I want to be the best player to play basketball.
My work's got to match it, which means everything that I do with basket, the work has to match it mentally, physically, and spiritually. It has to match my faith. Now, these two things match. Anything is possible.
in his name because that's what he said and then he also told us that greater works than this you will do and so jesus is telling me that and he's giving me this body his vessel and he's saying you could have all these gifts if you ask then I'm going to ask, and then I'm going to stay in the will of the Most High God. So all these things that I want to happen in my life happen.
There's times when I fail. There's so many times where I didn't have my eyes on Jesus.
I did it to fake my daily life.
Chaos happens when you allow your desires to get the best of you. And when you are a professional athlete, you make it to the NBA, and you are then given millions of dollars. So in the process of getting millions of dollars, now you have access to the world.
Everything. And so you got to think, you said at 16 is when you were thinking that you had everything in the world, right? Think about two years later, being 18 years old, being in the NBA, coming from the smallest school in Georgia. I had 16 people in my classroom. Wow. Yes. Oh my God. 10 girls and six guys were in my classroom. I had 300 people in my school total.
That is including the principals, the staff, the janitor, the babies, all the way up to 12th grade was my school. I went to the same school my whole life. So I went from this little bubble to to now thrown into the whole world and given millions of dollars. So at 18, I'm like, I can do anything. Who do I need to listen to?
And this is where the devil, or I don't, people like to say the devil, and I call it my lower self. The lowest version of myself wants to entertain my desire. And, you know, sometimes we want to blame that on somebody else, but we have to look ourselves in the mirror and hold ourselves accountable. Why? Because all of us have to bear our own cross. Jesus died for all our sins.
We are under, we're not under the law anymore. We are under his grace. Come on. But we still got to bear our own cross. So me at 18, I'm dealing with so much because what comes with money? Evil and good. But when you love money. That is the root of all evil. So me being around money, me being around people who might love money, it brought so much chaos and turmoil and just crazy around.
And I just had to decipher and figure out how to move. and there were times where I felt like Jesus was never there and he always would come in a situation whether it be good or bad say Dwight I would never leave you I don't remember that even when you're going through these trials that you're dealing with I am here but you have to figure out how to get through these trials and tribulations.
I have given you all the tools, talent, the mind, everything. But you, it is your choice. It's your will.
It was so many people, um, you know, try to give me a lot of great advice. Um, When you're 18 and you're the head of a franchise and all these different things that people are saying you are, a lot of times people are afraid to tell you anything. Especially when you have a source of something that they would like, and that's money. And so it is very difficult in this world
to navigate if you are not centered in Christ. And Christ is a mindset. It is the highest mindset that someone could have. And when you said about feeling God, sometimes we kind of trick ourselves into thinking that he's not there when he's in us. He can never leave our vessels until we decide to go back home and he quickens our spirit. So he's always there. He's always there.
It's just we have to choose to be in his will or his presence or not to be. But he will never leave us and forsake us. How do we know? Because Jesus said it in his word. He said, I must go expediently. I will. Comforter. And who was the comforter? The Holy Spirit. He will always be. That spirit is inside of all of us. So. We just have to. We have to continue this fight of faith. Yep.
And it is a tough faith walk when you say that you are a believer in Christ. For sure. Because the devil is out seeking to destroy our mind. Yep. And if Jesus... He's asking us to put on this helmet of salvation, Ephesians 6, and follow him. And that means we have to put on this mindset, this consciousness, in order to navigate through life. And the devil doesn't want that.
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