I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

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

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.