It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

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

I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

I was an idiot when I was a kid.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.