Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

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.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

They gave high fives to all the players who say like the most obvious textbook answers in the world. It's like after each game, you already know what they're going to say. If they lost: "Ahh ... Tough loss." It's like, come on, how do you guys fall for that? And if they something that they really feel, everyone goes crazy. Like "Oohh! He's spazzing out!" Now he gotta say sorry for saying something he really felt. It's like, Oh lord.