"My mom, I think I know what you did...Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old...You wake me up in the middle of the night in the summer times, making me run up a hill, making me do pushups, screaming at me from the sidelines of my games at 8 or 9 years old. We wasn't supposed to be here. You made us believe, you kept us off the street, put clothes on our backs, food on the table. When you didn't eat you made sure we ate; you went to sleep hungry. You sacrificed for us. You the real MVP." —Kevin Durant

Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant from his 2014 NBA MVP speech.