Dwight Howard
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139 appearances
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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'd be grateful for everything. It doesn't matter what it is. I'm grateful that I went through this moment where I stubbed my toe and I hurt my foot. I'm grateful that I had back surgery two times. I'm grateful that I tore my labrum. So I'm not just grateful for the good moments. I'm grateful for the bad ones too. Why? Because it's making me who I am.
If you only love the people that love you, then... Who are you? You're supposed to love everyone, even the people that hate you. The same thing. So I'm always grateful. It doesn't matter what it is. If I had a bad game, oh, God, thank you for this game. You know what? We lost. It wasn't meant for us to win, but I learned so much out of this lesson. We didn't win the championship.
I didn't get what I wanted, what I wanted. But looking back on it, this experience helped me with so many other things. So it's all about how you – look at it, how you view it. I like that. So, you know, I don't try to view anything as something, I always keep it positive. Why? Yeah. That's my blood type. Be positive. It's nothing like, I can't even, I can't even be negative.
Like it's not even in me. I like that. I like that. So I'm always, you know, just this positive person.
A peak moment of suffering? Well, actually... The moments where I'm not suffering is that brings me closer. Those moments when I do suffer, I just have a realization that I'm going through this suffering because I'm asking for peace. So before you can get peace, you have to go through long suffering. Peace comes from struggle. So
You know, I've had so many situations of struggle that have brought me to peace. Like I said, the back surgery. I had two back surgeries. First time I had it, the doctor told me in Orlando I was going to never play again. This would be the last time I played basketball.
Just to go through that pain and struggle of having the back surgery, crying every day, trying to go out and play, that was a struggle. But it brought me closer and it separated me from everyone else so I was able to hear the voice of God. Then the second time I had my back surgery, I had lost 30 pounds in 30 days. I remember going up to, I was in Washington, D.C.
at the time, playing for the Wizards. That year was one of my most painful seasons. And while I was going through this test that year, I felt like I didn't hear God because he put me through this test to see where my faith was. So I would go through this whole year. of being injured. My back was hurting so bad that season. I couldn't reach down to tie my shoe like this. I couldn't do this.
I couldn't put on my sock. The way I'm moving now, I couldn't do this. And I was still playing. I couldn't sit down in a chair for more than 15 seconds. I had to lay down on a plane. They had to bring me a blow-up bed to lay down on a plane because I couldn't sit on the chairs. I had to stand up the whole bus ride to every city that we came into once we got off the plane.
I had to stand up from the airport all the way to the hotel. I could not stand up. I mean, sit down at all. It was hurting so bad. When I ate food at home, I had to lay down and eat food. Yeah. It was crazy. I cried almost every day. I felt like I wanted to commit suicide. That's how bad my back was hurting. I literally did not want to live anymore because it hurt so bad just to even do anything.
But I was still hooping. I was still playing my butt off. I get out there and play, get 25 points, 15 rebounds, and I only got one leg. So that taught me two things. If your body is hurting like this, sit your butt down. You ain't got nothing to prove to nobody. That was ego. My ego is saying, no, I got to prove to everyone. I got to do this. Why? Why? No. What did you need to do?
Sit down, get yourself healthy. Why? Because I had something for you in L.A. the next season. Got a championship. That's what ended up happening. My faith started out in Washington. My back surgery came back in four months. Supposed to be out for a whole year. Came back in four months. Lost 30 pounds in 30 days.
told the owner from Washington Wizards before he traded me, I said, listen, come back, fully healed, I'm gonna lose 30 pounds in 30 days and we're going to win a championship. He must have didn't believe it or see it like I did. But he traded me, when they traded me, I was hurt, very hurt. Sent me to Memphis Grizzlies. Memphis Grizzlies called.
They told me that they didn't have no room for me on the roster. So I'm like, dang, no room on the roster? You guys just traded to get me on the team. This sucks. What did I do, God? Okay, I'm not going to blame you. I'm going to look in the mirror. What do I need to do? So that's what I did. Went home. Got into the gym. 30 days. Lost the weight. Right after that, Lakers want to meet with me.
I fly to L.A. Go on the court. My mindset was totally different. Why? Because I had got away from everything. God had to sit me down. Something had to happen in the spirit. then to my body for me to gain an understanding. See, everything that happens in spirit, the flesh happens in spirit first. So that spirit, what was happening to my spirit was, was,
injured i was hurt i was stressed i was going through all these things and it started to affect my body yeah and now i wanted to affect my body that's when i end up getting hurt yeah now i'm hurt can't do anything but sit down yeah and now during that process is when god was able to Hey, son, I'm always here. You're going to come back, but you got to believe it. Yeah. And that's what I did.
I came back that year. We won the championship for the Lakers. Come on. Greatest season. Greatest season ever. And that was the year we had the bubble. So much stuff going on. That was intense. It was very intense. Praise God. So grateful. That's for that.
All the time.
All the time.
People are crazy. Like, I literally... So when I played in Taiwan, they gave me this big van to travel with so I wouldn't have a regular car or whatever. They gave me this big van and they had decked the van out. It had clouds in it, music everywhere. I'm like, oh, this is crazy. I can just chill and go to the games.
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