Liberation does not come from outside.
I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.
I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.
You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.
I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.
When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable. "
There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.
You don't need to come from wealth or privilege to make a difference.
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.
I do not see eye to eye with the camera.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.