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Dikembe Mutombo

lines on the record: 63
first: 2019-11-04
most recent: 2019-11-04
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Thank you for having me. I don't come to Chicago as much as I do about that. Whenever we got a call that you will love me to... And I felt like it was a privilege for me to come in at that time.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a good question. That question I always say no comment. Because I am the friend of the McKain as a family despite my political differences with him, but we all did believe in the same thing of freedom to make the world a better place.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Inspire them to lift them, to know that the future belong to them. Because our children are losing hope every day. They are losing hope and except we as an adult to know that what are we doing for them? You know, you and I was talking earlier on and we talk about What President Kennedy say in the 60s when he gave his speech that don't think about what America will do to you but think about what you can do for the United States of America. What are we thinking about? What can we do for United States of America? We as a people. Because what makes the United States of America is the people is not the government. We the people are there, the one who formed the government. Because those live there who are in power, we can let them go tomorrow because we are the people are the ones who have that will.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Today, even in Africa, when you have a little daughter, you still have to think twice. I found my daughter work to go across. Is she okay? Everywhere now. So we're becoming so protected to our own children. Then our parents did. Why the world is changing that? Why we need to take some measure to make sure that when we are not here tomorrow, that make sure that we leave this world to the better hands to our children than what we have founded. I love the Obama Foundation, what they're doing, the changing that they are bringing no just in the city of Chicago, but through all the young people around the globe.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can become the present anywhere. You don't have to be the president of the country, but you can become the leader in your own community. And you can do something for yourself or for the world where you're living in. You need to believe in yourself. You need to be inspired by others. Those who came before you, who have success, and you need to see them with them, learn something. Stop walking away. The world is not the same. As we were yesterday, our young people are facing a lot of challenges, David. With the opium crisis, sex trafficking, wall, terrorists, those are the things when I was growing up. We didn't know nobody about it. You know, I didn't worry about somebody kidnapping my sister when I was young. Because we walked to school. We were not a friend of her.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I admire every person We want to make our society a better place for our children. Send it to my cab was one of them. This is a man who fought. For the freedom for so many people Wanted to see the change in this world. We want to make sure that our young people have a broad feature than what we did here. We want to make sure that they will end. And the prison Obama is one of them. He inspired all these young people. Say, if I could have become the president of the United States.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of the movement one day they will meet with the government and to discuss because any problem in this world has always been solved. There is no problem that we have seen in our society. You have lost from generation to the generation. It might take 50 years, it might take 100 years, but the problem always people will find the common count to come together and to make sure that there is a little bit of prosperity for the future generation. I was in the narration. I was chiggling. Would not leave the lab where they live. I'm not leaving the land my parents did live. Or my daughter is not leaving the life that her grandmother lived, which is getting married in a younger age or dropping after school. So it will be always a change.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um... I spend a lot of time in Hong Kong. I go to Hong Kong at least twice a year. Those are wonderful people. I love them so much. A different group of society. Maybe they don't want to have the same value and the belief both the parents did have or what their grandparents did. And the feeling like 20-some years from now, they're going to be squeezing from what they've been practicing now. I think that's what we are seeing now with the young people. But it is, I think they're leaders.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's one of my closest friends in the life. I've been a little bit hesitant about calling him, trying to know how he feel about this because we are dealing in a different culture, different. So you have to watch what you say on the phone. So I'll wait until the thing come down and I will reach out to him as a friend, as a brother, and try to talk to him.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So whatever has been said, it got nothing to do with sport, got nothing to do with the game that been playing. But at the same time, I would say that I think this issue will solve by himself sometime soon. It's just a question of time. And I think we are just sitting in the heat of the moment right now, and I think time will come where both people, including the America and the Chinese, will be unified for a good cause of the game because the game is such a wonderful game. And everybody wants to play, everybody wants to watch it, everybody wants to enjoy it.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“China is a big market, but in the same token that I was part of basketball is such a great sport you have grown globally right now. We have million most close to I don't know, maybe close to a billion people now who are playing our games. Who loved the game of basketball? I think basketball as much as I travel as NBA Global Ambassador, see our game is growing dramatically. And we have to come to the point to understand that sports you have a power to unify people.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I would play stick to those challenges. No matter how much money do they make, but they love getting on a plane, not just myself, but I travel with the colleagues from the NBA and other active players. We go all around the globe.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We contribute our community, our players have been traveling across Africa, helping UNICEF and Rodriguez International when it comes to polio vaccination. I know you've done great work on it, man. We have been in the middle of nowhere in Africa.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People think we just go and build a basketball court and teach kids how to play basketball. No. We also go to the communities, understand the problem, what they're facing. And how can we improve their life? Either they need a learning center and be accountable with his partners. We offer the MB, or they need a school. The NBA will work with his partner, make sure they build their school. They need a basketball court or there's a fight of diseases in their community. MBA will come like with UNICEF, World Health Organization, make sure we distribute mosquito net, more children cannot die from malaria. If there's a disease, NBA will bring other partners, launch a campaign, raise money, and raise awareness. Because NBA have such a biggest platform than any sport in this world. So we like to use our platform to make sure that”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Free My goal is to grow the game and also to carry our mission, which is the NBA KR, our social responsibility program to go out, to go away our games and not being playing, to know that what kind of impact can we have on that community?”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They go to some of the trip with me Because I have to make sure that I'm passing the torch. And I want my children to know that. It's good to live in this beautiful mansion, having a car and all of that. But there's other people there on the other side of the fence who are suffering more than us. What can we do for them? Doesn't How many thousand miles away they are, but we had to think about them. What can we do for them?”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love to contribute. I love to make a difference. I know that It's been a husband and a father's that I am, it come with a lot of responsibility in the house, but I always say if I can excuse myself to be outside my house, to take a trip to Africa for a week to know that we're going to save more life. And I think my family do understand that. Somebody got to do it. The question comes. I think. I've been blessed to have a wife and children that understand or that he's gone again, that is gone to make a difference.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With the climate changing, Animals are getting closer to the people and people are getting close to the animals. And we're going to face other diseases in the future that we don't know about. There have been so many type of diseases in Africa now, spiritual want to come at different type of fevers. That we still don't know as those people are being contaminated with those fevers.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there's some places in our planet that human beings have not been yet. There's all the animals who are still living in the forest that the human being don't know what kind of disease that they do carry. And when we as a people go to the forest and trying to kill those animals and trying to eat them, we don't know what we're eating. And the cooking process is not really good when you're in a village, especially for those who don't have a lot of mean. They just cook the meat and they try to eat it when they still have some red blood on it. And I think that those diseases have been passed on. And we have to educate our community, in our society. And we still have a long way to go.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm on the ball CDC Foundation. So not just because I'm on the ball of CDC Foundation, but I'm also a big advocate about people taking care of themselves, avoiding contact with those who are sick. There's nothing like speaking to people to the language that they can understand. And I think CDC is a lucky fortune enough to have someone like me who can play the role of the ambassador for Ebola disease in Africa and I can talk to my people and I can make them understand and make them understand why did I build the hospital. And why we need to work together as a community to stop this deadly disease, what is happening that... Our planet is so big.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Ebola has already taken a lot of more than 2,200 people and so many people still in the treatment center. So there's a lot of work need to be done.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I dumped four kids. I raised four nieces and nephew with my beautiful wife and we have three kids at home. So we raised seven children. So I kind of end up doing what my father did.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I got a chance to make money after three years after death, and I went back home and took his kids to raise them to America, that is a challenge to come also. It's been a young brother and to be successful.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A young age However, one who died when he was 19. the other brother in the mid 40. Mother brother he died when I was coming to America that would make him thirty. Is that 31 years old?”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's amazing that you play the game on basketball and you use the platform now to change so many lives around the globe. I'd like to tell to all of our young people who are playing sport. Don't just play sports because you love sports, because people are shame for you. User as a platform for you to make the world a better place. And you can do more by being an athlete.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Everyone who has contributed, who have come to medical mission, who continue to fulfill more mission in Congo because we have so many American doctors who are going to Congo every three months to do operation manufacture. I'm taking a group of surgeons on Saturday to go to Congo to go do the first heart surgery at the Motama Hospital, which will be a big news around the world that at the Mutambo hospital now they're doing heart surgery for free. So those are the things that I never thought that meat became a Mutumbo. Be able to realize.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Under And that they will be tuition free and we already got. I will not say that because we already have a bunch of sponsorship people who are willing to support the school in the years to come, which is great. I'm very excited. You know, in life, one thing I learned that you want to embrace new challenges. That can push you, that can motivate you, that can wake you up, and that can make you keep going forward. And I think we have done a great job by building the Biamba Marimutumbo Hospital Which is doing very well right now We”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To be giving away to a man. So I want to change them in our belief that we as human beings, no matter what part of society we come from, We had to have inside forces to be part of solving the problem in our society and being as a global citizen as we can and to becoming part of our community and taking the challenge that the community is facing how can we solve it with whatever mean that we have if we have allowed we can solve as much as we can if we have little we solve it because some build a problem can be solved just by our participation some of them can be solved by the fortune that we have so i think God put me in the right place, in the right position, especially with my voice and my height. I think I can hear. To be a big advocate for some of the problems that our society is facing today, and that's why I'm doing it, David.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They are poverty, and they have not been no school built there since the sixty. In the last 10 years, we see more than two million young girls drop off from school from A-grade. So many of them are going to the early marriage. Some of them are going to prostitution. Some of them are senting back to the agriculture to go work in a farm with their parents. So I want to save our young girls and boys. I don't want our society to go back, leave the way our parents did the live. Because I remember my mom got married when she was 12. And so I think about it, you know. I have a beautiful daughter who's in the first year of law school at Georgetown. I cannot imagine giving my daughter away at age of 12. I don't know what goes on to those parents to process at the time for the young girls like.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I want to do something to his memory. That's the reason why right now the foundation is in a mission to open the school in 2020-21, and we are breaking gone to Samya Mutumbo Institute of Science and Entrepreneurship to the village where my father came from, which is like 45 minutes away from fly from the capital city”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They came in the foundation was created back in 1997. Which role was to improve the living condition of the people in the Democratic Republic of Congo? And our first mission was to build a hospital, which we did in 2007. And we opened a Biamba Magi Mutumba Hospital that was opening a memory of my mother who died because he didn't make to the hospital. The hospital has been open. You have to wait more than 200 and some plus thousand women and children in the last 12 years. But our second mission was to build a school because I come from the family of educator who was my father, Samuel Mutumbo.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Our family ended up in Atlanta. Atlanta. Then we went to Atlanta. We were there for four years. Then I get shipped to Philly. Then I was in Philly for a year and a half. I got shipped by New Jersey. Then I was in New Jersey for money, I get shipped to New York, and I was in New York for one year. I was like, I cannot. There's a lot. And if you cannot, the way you find a peace with your families. To end up loving one of the city that you go to. And you say, maybe I like this city a lot. And my family and I will live here. Because if you keep moving the kids the way I see someone, AKLA affects social effect with your children. It's very tough.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You guys are not coming with me no more. You staying here with their kids. I'm going to keep going because I don't know where am I going to end up.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's very difficult. I think I'm glad you asked that question. That's something that our friends in the public don't see or don't understand about. The love of Professor Acklet, who are playing in MBA to understand what we go through, especially if you have a wife and children, what do you do with them when you get trained? In the middle of the season or in the end of the season. Two weeks after the school start, what do you do with the kids? It's very hot. First one, I got credit. I told my wife You same with the case. I'm going to feel it. I'm going to play one here. Then I will see how the things go. Then I will bring you guys to Philadelphia. you get there you bring them you buy another home Falls the home, you put the kids to school, boom, you get another car, you out. I think when we got through my third transfer, I was like,”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the great respect for human beings we have in the NBA. I'm gonna do it. Is what the NBA stands for. It's one of the great legends. We love him. Every one of the players who played today respect the men to the love of that nobody haven't seen.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it was against Boston. I have like about 10 block shot, like in 30 minutes and Greg Petino, who was a coach for the Celtics back then and called the league the next day, complain as his place was embarrassed, but he came in Mutumbo followed up to 20,000. And the commissioner called the next day. He was like, oh, I think we made a decision that you need to look the other way when you're doing that. Guys are getting embarrassed. But it took me a long time to try to change my mental approach how to do their finger wear. And in the end, I went back doing it, even though I was paying $500,000 a day”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I came from a defense mind, Coach John Thompson, and I was mentored by Bill Wasso. As I was getting ready to go to the NBA, Bill Russell came and spent an amount of time with me. Nope. Playing basketball, just talking to me about the game and preparing me mentally how to approach the game of basketball and how to go out to becoming one of the most fierce basketball players that nobody ever seen. Every time I would block the shirt, I would shake my head. And I thought that maybe people was not getting it. So this guy would block the shot and shake his head. No, no, no. I said, I'm about to start going with my finger wiped. No, no, no, in her face. And I start doing her fence start going crazy. Start loving until one day.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think in the middle of my rookie year. Because I always felt that. I was the best. Defense player to play the game, I have this ego thing that was going on through my mind, that I felt that I was better than everybody defensely.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because those are the guys that I have to God every given night and I have to deal with them. And then you have Michael. Oh, everybody think you was playing outside. But every time you go watch the TV in the middle of the night, you see donkey at everybody. It was not easy. I'm glad that I got drunk only one time over my 18 years by Michael Jones, one time. A lot of people got their picture taken with Michael all over their head. Yes.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You got David Robinson You have my last one. All the favorite was called Malone. And who are considered one of the best power four ever played this game? Yes, Sir Charles Barkley. He was like a running train. Anybody was standing there and followed to him. He would crash you and go over you.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There were so many great players who played my, you know, you have got like Patrick Ewing, or even though he didn't win a championship with the next matter, he gave the Knicks everything he had for more than 10 years. Now the Georgia.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To kick you when it's down or for him it was win, win, win, win. It didn't take a day off. You know, this is a guy who score more than sixty points after having a flu the night before.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think because the way he did approach the game was different than everybody who play on my L. Michael was coming saying, I'm going to kick your ass. Michael did excuse me for my French, but Michael was not afraid.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he did. He got a technical file. I was the only one that was allowed to do that. When Michael did it, they Was not happy about it But”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“13 years here in Chicago. Okay You were going to win the game. You were special. Michael was special. It was not easy to face Michael on the basketball court. He brought such a big challenge Your team, to your teammates, to the coaches, to the organization to know that it's not going to be an easy night for you guys. He was one of those guys, his presence was bigger than life. And not just the size of the crowd that was coming every given night to watch him, but it's more the fear that was going on to so many players high to know that, hey, tonight it's going to be a long night. I have to guard this guy. I hope he doesn't get it dunk on me. I hope I don't end up in a sports center. Back to me, the game was like these guys not gonna get crazy. If he tries, he's gonna get the finger that no, no”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want to make you a rich man and I want to make you a good citizen of the world and you're going to be a good basketball player, son. You're such a hard worker. You do better than so many people that I've seen here. So he did believe in me. And plus that he has something special on me. He really treats me like his own son. I don't think he treats me different than his own children. He just gave me such a great love.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was joking a lot, but he was always saying that If you messed up, I will send you back to go serve in Mobutu Army. So you better do what I'm telling you to do over here.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think it's, I remember, I always remember that first meeting, I was walking to the stair to his office, all I can hear, the door open before even I got there, and these were this giant coming up. From his office with his tower in his shoulder. Allah Africa, Al-Qaeda, who's this guy? But that I knew I heard the name, but I did know it was that big. You know, it's not like every day I see people taller than me.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was saying that, but my father, you have to pay a lot of money from left and right to make sure that he doesn't stay in the military to get him home. It was very difficult for my parents.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now, one thing about America, you're free to express yourself, you're free to vote, you're free to speak about against your government with no retaliation. Those are the things that was not happening where I came from. And the Mobutu regime, you say something, you go to jail or you get thrown to the military. You sent to the military boot camp as they did to one of my oldest brother. What are you about?”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source