Dwight Howard
Dwight Howard
Dwight David Howard is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Howard, who plays center, had an outstanding high school career at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy. He chose to forgo college and entered the 2004 NBA draft, and was selected first overall by the Orlando Magic. An eight-time All-Star, eight-time All-NBA team selection, five-time All-Defensive member, and three-time Defensive Player of the Year, Howard has been ranked consistently as one of the best...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth8 December 1985
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
We're not playing desperate. Like I've been preaching all season, hard work will eventually turn out and show up for our team.
I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.
Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.
I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.
You know hard work will eventually show up for our team and I think that's what the case is now.
We can't let losing stop us from believing. We're a work in progress.
We'll figure this out. We'll make it work in the future.
That's the secret to success -- not worrying only about what's going to happen in the future, trying to work only on the stuff you can work on in the present.
I can't wait. Everybody on this team is a hard worker, and I'm sure they're going to work to get better as individuals.
I've got some work to do. We all do. We've got some time. This will be a good team. We've just got to get it all together.
I think we could have had a win tonight. Detroit stepped it up on the defensive end and won the game, but the next time, we'll know what to do.
We really needed a win tonight, especially on the road. My mind-set tonight was to really focus in on bearing down and getting a win. I wanted to do everything in my will to get that win tonight.
We can win games at home. But we seem to lose focus on the road.
We had a lot of careless mistakes but I think that our defensive pressure was not there the whole game. We gave them easy baskets on our turnovers and that's one thing our coaches have been impressing on us all year.