If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Basketball isn't my job.

If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.

If nobody will help you do it alone!