When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

Seems like everybody wants to know if an athlete is on drugs, so you got to stay clear of wild people.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.