"My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view."
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"You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me."
"Every season is so much different and you go through your ups and downs, you figure your team out, you get to play against great teams. Some of the best competition there's been since I've been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It's a lot of fun."
"Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them."
"I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game."
"I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food."
"I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'"
"We're not going to think about what's happened in the past."
"It's cool to actually have my own trading card."
"The people that are surrounding me have my best interest."
"I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him."
"If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad."
"College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever."
"It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling."
"I'm not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls."
"I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him."
"Take care of your body from the inside out."
"I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man."
"This has been a dream for me."