Not everyone has a purpose.

Make your work your play and your play your work.

My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.

You have to be unique.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

He practiced against Kobe all of last year, so obviously it was sweet revenge for him. We deserved that. We didn't know who he was, we gave him up to Charlotte, we had no idea how good a player he was.