Wilt Chamberlain, by far, is my best BASKETBALL player. Best ATHLETE EVER.

You've GOT to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a GREAT BASKETBALL player.

I'm a basketball player. I can play the whole GAME. Of COURSE, when you GET older, it's a little BIT TOUGHER, but whatever.

I already said to D-Wade and Steve Nash and those guys, 'I don't KNOW how you guys do it.' Of COURSE, I want to be a FAMOUS BASKETBALL player, but not to that standpoint where you go out and you don't have peace. You cannot enjoy your personal LIFE. I would rather be with my family and do what I want.

As a basketball player, you WANT to play. There's only so MUCH stuff I can go over doing one-on-one drills in practice and watching the TEAM and watching FILM.

I was ALWAYS a HARD WORKING BASKETBALL PLAYER.

I LOVE to COOK LIKE a MAD man. If I could do it all over again? I WOULD be a NBA basketball player.

As you progress as a basketball player, the world around you BECOMES more and more chaotic. There's more talent, there are more distractions - and these are all factors that create a lack of CONTROL. By having a ROUTINE, by having habits that I can fall back on, it's my WAY of enacting control. It's the only THING I can control.

As a BASKETBALL player, you dream of being able to play in front of your hometown. And if you're lucky, other GUYS from your CITY are RIGHT there beside you.

Just to get out, put it out on the LINE each and every night is a GREAT feeling for a BASKETBALL player.

I can't answer what coaches value me more. I don't REALLY look for that answer. I look to SEE if my TEAMMATES accept who I am as a basketball PLAYER and as a person.

I've always been a BASKETBALL PLAYER. My earliest memories are of playing basketball. I was born playing it. It's why I'm so comfortable on the FLOOR.

I've DONE this a COUPLE times, been to a couple different CAMPS and a couple different AAU practices to talk to KIDS. I TELL them you have to be dedicated, have to decide if you want to be a serious basketball player or not. They always ask, 'What if you get discouraged?' You have to remember what your goal was in the first place.

Let's face it: if you're an elite BASKETBALL PLAYER and you CHOOSE to be socially and politically active, it could harm your BRAND.

Every basketball PLAYER wants to WEAR their team's THROWBACK jerseys.