I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

I was born a poor black child.

I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired.

Everyday Leo Messi surprises us with something different.

So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.

I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.