I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things.

Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

I think the unconditional love you get from an animal, especially a dog, is better than anything else.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?