To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.