"Money doesn't always define basketball."
"The ball will tell you who the best players are, not the contracts, not the media."
"I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant."
"I've never wanted to be anybody else, and I never thought anybody else could be me more than me."
"I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today."
"I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball."
"I feel like dads should come more into their feminine side."
"I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own."
"The older you get, the more your body starts to reject certain things."
"I'm your favorite player's favorite player."
"I just want the respect I deserve. Not for what I can do in the future but what I've done in the past. And I just want a fair opportunity, a fair chance, a fair shot to play basketball."
"Look at my nine-year career: I've always been close to a point a minute. I've always been a walking bucket."
"I've always been the quiet, not-stand-up-for-myself kind of guy."
"A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be."
"I've always done well with pressure, always done well with awkward situations."
"I tell people all the time like, man, when you a kid, you don't know you're in the hood, or you don't know you poor. You just accepting your environment when you a child, and that's when your friends are really your friends, wholeheartedly and nothing malicious."
"By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5."
"If you can't be honest with yourself, then you can't be honest with anybody."
"At the end of the day, everything I've been through on and off the court, I'm the only common denominator."
"If you're only using 10 percent of your brain, you don't even know that you're using 10 percent of your brain. If you're only using 10 percent of something, that means you don't know the rest of the 90!"
"Tim Hardaway Jr., Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis and myself - those are four guys that can score 25 points per game."
"My name don't ever come up unless it's light, a joke, laughs behind it. I'm not saying it's all the way a bad thing, but it's not great."
"I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously."
"I feel like I was counted out, you know, my first two seasons in the NBA. They might not have been perfect, but I'm proud of them."
"I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths."
