Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

This was an unbelievable experience.

I'm not a daily coffee guy at all, or energy drinks or anything like that.

We just forced them into tough shots that whole overtime. It was a classic five minutes that we needed.

In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.

I can speak volumes about the guy sitting next to me. You look at his stat line tonight, he had a lot of foul trouble and didn't really get going, but when he was in there, he was defending. He was playing physical, and he was doing everything he could to help us win.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.