As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.
Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.
I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.
Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
A lot of people think that as a player, during the lockout, you just have your whole day free. It's not like that - especially for me. I wake up everyday, train in the morning from 9 a.m. to about 2 p.m. Then I have a business meeting here, have to meet this person there, it's non-stop for me.
Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.
Family time is the best time.
I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.
I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.
I want to win the game. I dont worry about taking over the game unless I have to.
I smile all the time, even when I'm in a bad mood. I always try to keep a smile on my face.
I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.
Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.
I got an owner that looks out for me. You can't beat that.
I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild.
When you've never had something, you want it worse than anything.
I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.
I did this campaign that was called "Back to the Basics" where I went back to the street, went back to my block, and really felt the people. We've got to go back to that sometimes. We distance ourselves from that and we see it from afar. Some people can't relate back to that; once you're out of it, they don't want to relate back to that. It's always good to get back to the basics, though. You've got to touch the roots, you've got to touch those people. Regardless of what's going on, people always respect that.
These close games that we're losing, the teams are not beating us. We're kind of beating ourselves.
You make your own party.
No one is perfect. I know there is stuff that I need to work on, and not just one thing, but my game overall. Everything can get better.
I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.
How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.
I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.
It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.
