My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

I think you have to work very hard and dedicate yourself and have the respect of your teammates before you're about to go out and just try to take a game over by yourself.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

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

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.