When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.

When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.