I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

You have the management team, coaching staff, film staff, analytics team, training staff and playing team, and you're trying to manage all that and it's overwhelming. And then you have the media responsibilities. I don't know that I help at all, but I would think my value would be to help provide more of a clear-headed view from the outside. It's not like I have huge opinions, but I do have my point of view and perspective.

You can't worry about things you have no control over.