Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend?
As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.
We hated Cleveland growing up. There's a lot of people in Cleveland we still hate to this day.
You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'
I like being around people.
I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.
It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.
I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
When you get to know some of the history of the game, Oscar Robertson is one of the names that pops up first.
We don't want to get frustrated because it sticks in your mind too much. We have to work at it and see what we did wrong.
The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.
I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach, 'There's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'
Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.
I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.
If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.
It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.
If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.
I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.
A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.
I didn't think we'd get to this point that we're at now, but I was ready to lead If we got to this point.
I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.
