I went through what I went through because God said go through it

When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.