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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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“Because as I was growing up at Georgia University, I felt like I want to becoming a global citizen. You know, I want to learn the politics of the world. I want to be with the people who solve the problem of the world, people who go in their daily life every day discuss about, okay, we make this world a better place for tomorrow, for our children, for our next generation. And I was lucky and fortunate enough to be in the shoes and being blessed, to be around a congressman. From San Camero, who gave me the opportunity for internship for three years to learn as much as I can about the American problem or about the global problem, I think I learn a lot. It made me understand maybe it inspired me to go do what I'm doing today. And I think Allah got to do also a few things that I learned and I hear.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did he even have the money to go do the laundry? It's very difficult. And I'm glad that it took almost 50 some or 100 years for NCA to come out to the conclusion that these kids need at least the money to do their home laundry. There's so many kids in college today they cannot do even their home laundry because they just don't have the money. They don't know money to buy a soap.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, And you are nationally known. Some of the schools get $30,000. I think why the kids cannot get only a couple hundred dollars. You know, it was very difficult there. For me, I think I'm going to go back, speak more about the Kemotombo, what I went through in college. It was just difficult to even find a tender to buy pixel. In college For some of us who came from a very deep poor family, it was more examples, some of my teammates also came from poor family as well. But I was lucky. At least I did hear of a cousin. Who still live in Washington until today was a medical doctor who I was able to escape from school and go to his house and ask him even for a hundred dollars or two hundred dollars a month to have some money on a packet. But some of my teammates didn't have nobody to go ask money to.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course I am a very big advocate about that. It took me a while to come to the conclusion that. players who are playing in college, especially big institutions. We have to be careful here when we talk about our athletes need to get pay in colleges. Know all of the colleges, you have a fund to fund the scholarship. Know all of the colleges to fund the scholarship also to pay the athletes because they don't generate no money at all and there's nobody come. But I think some major institutions who are making a lot of profit to these young kids should award them. Some benefit”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To me, he's a father figure. He taught us everything is right for us to succeed, and I think he gave us all the tools of life to make sure that wherever we are going and alive, we can use them to inspire others. And he want us to be a leader, he wants us to be a role model and example for the generation that will come. And I think not all of us did follow this advice because I will not speak on behalf of. Every one of us who got a chance to play under leadership of John Thompson. But speak on behalf of those who got chance to be close to him, who follow him, who follow his mentorship, you have turned out to be very successful.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of course, I'm so lucky that we didn't have a cell phone, we didn't have an internet when I was going to have social media. I don't know what kind of pain would I have gone through. I was strong enough, and I think a lot got to do with my pants. My brothers used to tell me, oh, don't worry about Dick, let's go, let's go, don't worry about it.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was not easy. And today people glorify you, clap hands every time they see you, come kiss your feet and they thank you for everything you are doing to the community, things you're doing around the world. People are crying around you. They think you're becoming Moses. And you look back, you say, it's not the same community where I came from that bullying me all my childhood before I went to America and I came back today myself.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um, I'm glad you asked this question. I don't think there's a There's a child who has experienced a bullying. As much as I did in my childhood. I'm still there taller than my family, the youngest, but to see when I went to as a child, as being skinny as I used to be, Being a southern fruit and walking along with a little shot and people calling you different type of name. People tell that I was from a different planet. I was not from here. What made me to be tall and I was in so. I go back today, I see some of my old teacher who are much older now. They try to hug me, then we go back, try to have that conversation. I was treated on campus as being tall as I am, you know. Every time there was a problem in a class and every teacher would point a finger to Motomba, be like, it must be Motambo. It's very sad. It's very sad.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love science. Until today, maybe that degree is one of the reasons I want to build a house for topical. For since a childhood, I always want to become a scientist. I was so fascinated about the idea of becoming a doctor or study biochemistry or becoming a shemist or a biologist. I just want to do science. That's why I got the scholarship from the USID to come study at Georgia University. From that, I want to go to Jewish. Medical school one day, and becoming a doctor, maybe go back to Africa and go treat people. Somehow that while I was on campus and being tall as I am, and I was get called by everyone, including John Thompson and... basketball coach of Georgetown”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very important education being a bigger Is a big fundamental foundation of my family. You know, my father always struck the education being only the key of success in any society. We talk about... About our children being educated because we know that dedication is the only way they can reach the summit, like the Old Testament say. People perish because of lack of knowledge, so education stayed the key, no matter what you want to do in a society. Yes, but I always give them a hard time because I'm the third in my family after my father and my oldest brother. God do it from college. So I put myself on the ground.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, when you have a father who was the only one to go to college to be educated, then his parents died in a young age. He did have a lot of responsibility to try to raise, to help out his four sisters and two brothers. My dad did face a lot of challenge and he was only like 19 years old going to his 20 and he just got his first job and he's trying to go back to college. And next time he knew he was sent to Europe to go study. Then he came back and all the family was waiting for him. He faced these lot of challenges to look after his family. He didn't have no choice. Yes”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's been a plantain. The plantain is spelled with L, which is the Kembe. I was born, I was a little bit of six child when I was born. I did face some challenging as a child, as a baby. So I stayed in the hospital for a long time. My mom always, my mom used to remind me about that. And as I was growing up, it was very difficult for me to learn how to sit down. Every time they would pull me down as a baby, I will fall to my left or fall to my right. And my uncle, who was living with my parents back then, he said, man, what's wrong with this child? It's so fragile like a banana. And it's pointing up to me. Look at this Riquembe, Riquembe. And they forgot my main face name was Jean-Jacques, still Jean-Jacques like my son, but. People keep recalling the game. Then I grew up. Extended Yes”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No mostly when their child is born yonder. Your parents will be trying to give you the name. Either they give you your father name or grandparents' name or they give you the name of someone will play a role in a family who is no longer with us. Make sure that their name is still going. So when you are deceased, your name really doesn't go away. It come back right away to whatever child who's born next in the family.”
2019-11-04 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 354 – Dikembe Mutombo · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source