Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

There’s a reason why players that have multiple championships have multiple championships. There’s a certain characteristic and an understanding and knowledge and that’s not something that’s easily taught. You kind of have to go through it and it kind of has to be part of your DNA from the beginning.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.