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.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and learn every day. I have tried to apply that approach in my modest career as well.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.