Athlete

My confidence in myself is unbelievable.

I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.

I'm from Texas, so we used to wear our pants starched down like a cowboy. So when I got to New York, to New Jersey, everybody was laughing at me like, 'Look at his pants! His pants could stand up by themselves!'

I'm an assassin on the court. And at home, I'm a nun.

You have to listen to the people who employ you.

I love the fact that players have control of where they want to play.

My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott didn't really like me, but they let me come to camp and I was having a great camp. Stephon Marbury embraced me.

I would not advise a young player to even listen to Byron Scott, because he is the worst coach at communicating with young guys, and I'm living proof.

Just winning is special.

I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.

If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me.

I had a hell of a career - didn't miss no games.

I never met a dollar that could change me. Been the same guy since day one.

I want to be part of a team that wants to win. Guys that are trusting each other, guys that don't mind playing hard.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

I had a taste of a championship in San Antonio, and that was big for me. I cried when we won, and I hadn't cried in 10 years before that. It felt good, everything I'd been through, to say I was the champion at the end of the year.

There's no time for being babies or being scared. If you're scared, go to church.

I've never been a guy not to speak my mind and I guess people don't like that.

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

The best part of my career was being able to play with a lot of guys from different countries, different places, different races. That was the best part about it.