You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.