When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

I don't live in that world where I'm on social media, I don't got social media. Or I'm reading articles [about my game], so it's like I hear stuff by word of mouth a couple of days after so it never gets to me. So I can't get mad about what they say.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.