The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

When you start training camp, you're building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.

That argument doesn’t make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and as a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we’ve progressed as a society? Well, if we’ve progressed as a society, then you don’t jump to somebody’s defense just because they’re African-American. You sit and you listen to the facts just like you would in any other situation, right? So I won’t assert myself.

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.