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Motivation Quote by Tim Hardaway

"I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that"

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Hardaway’s line lands like an unfiltered mic moment: not an argument, not even a feeling he’s trying to unpack, but a dare to the listener to imagine the maximum volume of disgust and then watch him turn the dial past it. The repetition is the point. “Hate” becomes a unit of measurement, a competitive stat, something you can keep piling up the way an athlete stacks points. That’s why it hits so hard culturally: it’s emotional excess phrased in the language of performance.

The intent is dominance through certainty. He isn’t describing people; he’s staging a contest in absolutes where nuance counts as weakness. The rhetorical question (“Can you hate more than that?”) is a trap. If you answer no, you’ve validated his “all the hate.” If you answer yes, he claims that too. It’s an airtight loop of escalation, a self-sealing declaration designed for headlines, not conversation.

The subtext is insecurity disguised as conviction. When someone needs to insist, twice, that their hatred is beyond the imaginable, it suggests the real audience isn’t “them” but everyone watching: teammates, fans, media, a culture that rewards loud certainty over complicated honesty. In sports, intensity is a virtue; this is intensity without a game attached, the competitive mindset spilling into identity and politics. In context, it reads less like a personal confession than a public performance of allegiance to a hard line, the kind of statement that doesn’t persuade so much as police the room.

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Hardaway, Tim. (2026, January 16). I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hate-them-with-all-the-hate-you-can-hate-with-128296/

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Hardaway, Tim. "I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hate-them-with-all-the-hate-you-can-hate-with-128296/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate them more than that." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-hate-them-with-all-the-hate-you-can-hate-with-128296/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.

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Tim Hardaway (born September 1, 1966) is a Athlete from USA.

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