Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

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.

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

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don't care who gets in the way.

The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.