Being close ain't good enough.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

Keep practicing. Never let someone tell you you're too small or too slow.

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.

We wanted to impress the crowd so much. The city has done so much for us and welcomed us right in, and we just wanted to give them a good show and show them that we're going to play for them. I think guys just had a little bit of jitters.

I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.