If you want to be successful, you are going to have to deal with pressure.

I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

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.

When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.

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

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.