You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.

The older you get the more you try to appreciate what you've accomplished.