It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.

I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.

In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

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

He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.