And the competition didn't stop there. My sister who is one year younger than me, never wantto be home by herself. She took classes, extra classes, graduated from high school with me, togo to university North Carolina with me, and to graduate fairer than me. And you guys ask mewhere my competition nature comes from, it came from them, it came from my older sister andshe is not here today. My father who is not here today, obviously he is with us, all of us. Mycompetitive nature has gone a long way from the first time I picked up any sports, baseball,football, run-track, basketball, anything in this class I played it.

我体内的竞争意识的源泉还远远不止这些。我的妹妹，她比我小一岁，从来不喜欢一个人在家。她参加了许多额外的课程，最终和我同一年毕业。之后我们都去了北卡罗来纳大学，她却比我早一年毕业。你们问我体内的竞争意识，竞争的本能源自何处，这就是答案。它还来自我的姐姐，她今天没有出席。我的父亲，虽然他已经不在了，但是他的精神一直陪伴着我。我的竞争意识从我第一天从事体育运动就开始萌发，任何运动，棒球、橄榄球、田径、篮球，你们所能列举的运动我都参加过。

When you think about, they started to fire me; you know that fire started from my parents. AsI moved on my career, people add wood to that fire. Coach Smith, what can I say about him?He is a legendary coach. Lerold Smith, now you guys think that's a mistake. Lerold Smith wasthe guy when I got kicks he made in the team. He is here tonight. He is still the same six sevenguy. He is not even bigger. His lev l is probably about the same. But he started the wholeprocess for me, because when he made the team and I didn't, I wanted to prove, not just toLerold Smith, not just to myself, but to the coach who actually picked Lerold over me. I wantto make sure you understood you make a mistake, dude.

他们点燃了我心中的火焰。从我的父母开始，随着我的职业生涯的发展，一些人使这股火焰更加旺盛。比如史密斯教练，我该对他说些什么呢?他是一个有着传奇色彩的教练。里罗德·史密斯，你们可能都认为我说错了，因为他就是当年我被踢掉的时候进校队的人。他今天也在现场，他还是六尺七寸那么高，一点也没长高，水平也和以前差不多。但就是他点起了我心中的火焰——为什么他可以进校队而我不能，我要证明——不仅仅是向我自己或者他，我还要向教练证明你做出了一个错误的选择。