Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

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.

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

I've never been afraid to fail.

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if