Tim Hardaway

You learn, you know, who to mess with, who not to mess with.

You know, when to talk, when not to talk.

You know, you just go through the criticism, and that's what I did, and that's what prepared me to play in the NBA.

You took it as constructive.

I took it as constructive criticism.

I didn't say it was constructive criticism.

You know, I, I,

I had a lot of people talk to me and I listened to them, whether it's good, whether it's bad, whether I didn't believe them or not believed them.

But I still listen to them because you never knew.

When somebody tell you something that might happen to your life and probably I say about 50 percent of things that people have told me has happened in my life.

And I knew how to deal deal with it at that particular time.

So I so I'm in high school and one of my my dad's good friends.

He watching me play, and I go up and block somebody's shot off the glass.

I pin it to the glass, and I go down.

At 5'9"?

Yeah, and I pin it to the glass, and I go down the court, and I pass the ball to somebody for a layup.

And, you know, I came after the game.

I said, did you see me do that, block that guy's shot off the glass the first time I pinned somebody's stuff on the glass and this and that?

He said, and he was right in front of my dad, and this is my dad's good friend.

And he said, look, you little short MF.