If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.

There were hard days but I never felt sorry for myself.

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

We make a living playing basketball. You don't have to be a tough guy or a hard-ass to play this sport. You can be tough but you don't have to have that bravado. Sometimes it's good. But I'm not going to be someone I'm not. It's just me being me.

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.