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.

It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?