Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.