I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

Friendship first, competition second.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.