The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

Attitude is altitude.

Goals determine what your going to be

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.