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“I love journalism and broadcasting. So I'm happy about my life and I wouldn't change a thing.”
“I don't really compartmentalize and put players in high school, college, or the pros. For everybody, it's physically and mentally, where are you? How do you evolve? Where's your game at?”
“Well, look, man, I know that Corey Sanders is a player that I've watched for a long time. I love him. I think he has that dog in him.”
“The NBA is way more progressive than the NFL or MLB.”
“People love to make comments to me on Twitter or social media networks, and I say it's easy for you to make a comment because you're behind a screen where nobody can ever see you.”
“I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.”
“LeBron's had so many legendary moments because he was in the NBA Finals eight or nine years straight, and because to that his brand will endure and keep growing.”
“The thing about me is, all my life, the only way I've known to be better is to try to outwork people.”
“People associate strength with physical, and that's the wrong assumption. You're as strong as your mind is.”
“I can't imagine the difficulty of going from coaching a college team where you control your own environment to coming to a pro-style where the players control the environment.”
“The thing about being a kid is you're going to make mistakes in the heat of the moment.”
“If there is anything that my life has taught me is that life is unexpected and you're not always going to know the cards that you're going to be dealt.”
“If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.”
“I'd be remiss if I didn't say that a lot of my identity was formed around basketball, and after the accident I had a lot of animosity toward myself because I'd lost the one thing I wanted to do for my entire life.”
“I personally love watching greats like Matt Lauer, Scott Pelly, Howard Cossell, Bryant Gumble and others that can stimulate an intelligent, thoughtful, moving conversation or interview.”
“There's different types of coaches in life. I don't have to be a coach on the basketball court. I can be a coach for businesses. I can be a coach for kids. I can be a coach for people who have gone through adversity, because everyone has had some type of damn accident in some form or capacity.”
“I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.”
“For me personally, I played better when I was angry.”
“You always have to knock down shots in order to win big-time games.”
“I've always been around people who are older than myself, I've always played on basketball teams with older guys.”