I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

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.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.