It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.
I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.
When there is talk about the best point guards, sometimes they dont talk about me. But that is not my main motivation. They can talk about Jason Kidd, Steve Nash, Deron Williams, and Chris Paul. I still have the most rings.
The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.
Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.
I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
It is courage the world needs, not infallibility. . . courage is always the surest wisdom.
I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn't in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren't pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.