Obviously, I know what I'm best at: catch-and-shoot. But I can put the ball on the floor.

My mission is to kill; whether it's the Heat, whether it's the Lakers. Hopefully both. That's my mission, and that's what I'm here to do.

Every time I step on the court I want to be up there with the best.

I've won at every level.

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

My idol, Gary Payton, played 19 years. I definitely want to try to reach that.

I am always playing hard trying to win. Just knowing that at one time I was once that kid that looked up to NBA players and NFL players. Today these kids look up me.

If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

You've got to love the game and the game will love you back.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does.

Success is not for everyone, but if everyone had a phobia of failure, success was going to be a common thing.

To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this...Don't take life WAY too seriously.

The best way to learn to cook is to do some serious eating.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.