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.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

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.

I just shoot until I feel good.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

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