I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

"I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever."

I'm not gonna be able to live on this planet if I don't get to express myself.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

"I always believe if you’re stuck in a hole and maybe things aren’t going well you will come out stronger."