I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.

I just bring the determination to win.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.