You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

The ones who become stars or superstars are the ones who have a head on their shoulders and know how to use it.

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.

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.