I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

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.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!