“But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'”

“Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.”

“I Own the guy guarding me”

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”

“Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.”

“We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.”