I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

I think that like most people I know, I have a range of views, but they are rooted in my values and experience.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.