There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.
Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.
It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.
He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.
I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.
I can't say enough, how important my faith is to how I play the game and who I am.
What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.
In a game, there are so many different variables that are thrown at you - the defense, where your teammates are, how fast your body's moving, and you have to be in control of all those decisions.
I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.
We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.
The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.
It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.
The funny part is I feel like somebody is stalking me, like, at my local course and sizing up my game.
If you're not prepared to give some truly independent thought to what this world is all about, then what is the point of being alive?
Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
In my terms, "neurocognitive efficiency" is being able to make smarter, faster decisions on the floor.
I learned how quickly I actually released my shot off the dribble. I know that's something I work on, and really use in games, but I didn't know exactly how quick it was, down to like the millisecond.
I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.
I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.
Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.
Have a day off, which is very rare in our line of work, but that's something we like to do. Like I said, it's a nice way to take your mind off the game and just go out and relax and have fun.
We want to get another one.
All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
You obviously have your routines that you rely on, then you go out and play and have fun. For us in basketball, we have a seven-game series, so you have time to adjust if you need to. It's a fun experience to go through, and one that I'll remember for a long time.
