"I'm humble."
"George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall."
"I've always liked Deron Williams because has the same mentality as me."
"Kobe Bryant, to me, is still the best basketball player in my mind. He played with me and he was in my era. I still love him to death. He's a little brother to me."
"When you talk back to me and say something to me it made my game go to another level."
"I haven't gotten in any trouble off the floor."
"You don't hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin' drunk."
"I want to finish my career in Seattle but it's rocky."
"Money and all that stuff doesn't equal a ring, because you'll always be in the books as winning a championship and being on one of the best teams ever to play the game."
"I've already gotten the big paychecks. I'll be fine."
"People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing."
"It's just a great honor to even be associated with the Hall of Fame and get in. If I eventually do make it, it will be a great honor, and I don't care if it's the first or second time because it's an honor for anyone to make the Hall of Fame."
"Seattle deserves a team. They got robbed of their basketball team."
"As people know in coaching, you can get fired and hired just like that."
"I'm not going to go to a team that's losing. I think that would be disrespectful to me to trade me to somebody like that."
"It's always going to have an effect when your father comes up and scolds you in front of a lot of people."
"I'm not a jealous guy."
"You can't regret anything - it's over with."
"If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too."
"I've done did a lot of things in the NBA, made a lot of stuff, so I'm happy with what I've done."
"I think if you ask any young guy if they would want a career like Gary Payton, they would tell you yes."
"I'm not going to sit here and dwell on whether or not I am going to the Hall of Fame."
"I am going to go on with my life, and if they call me and say 'Yo, you are going to be in the Hall of Fame or you are going to be in this,' then I am going to say, 'So be it.' If I make it, I will go to the ceremony, and I'll have fun."
"I've got a lot of stats. I did a lot of stuff."
"You make sacrifices. You sacrifice yourself. Do you want to possibly win a championship? Or do you want to be the same person you were when you were 20 and get those same numbers?"
