As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win.

If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.