Basketball Player

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I'm not the most patient of people.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury - unless it's completely debilitating - I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.