Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

You have to treat people the way you want to be treated, because ultimately, you're not gonna get anywhere if you're just mean to people.

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.