Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It's very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can't discredit that. I can't say I don't enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It's very humbling.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'