Every one of us has the ability to raise awareness, volunteer, educate our friends and family, and give back to our communities.

You don't have to be a professional athlete to be heard - the most powerful tool you have is your voice.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

I grew up in the '80s in an era that was tough. The Pistons, Celtics, Knicks, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason. It wasn't dirty. It was just men playing basketball.

When you're in one of the biggest media markets and you have a good team and you're predicted to do well, if you struggle at any point, they're going to come after you. Even when you're playing well, you're not winning by enough.

My kids' happiness kind of outweighs everything. Just seeing the smiles on their faces and the anticipation leading up to Christmas is what I love now, having kids of my own.

It's obviously a blessing to be able to play on Christmas Night, the one big night everyone watches.

In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

I'll knock down the open jumper when it's there, but I want to get after it on the defensive end.

Running hard I can get some easy points, and I'm definitely going to keep doing that.

Running in transition and scoring in transition, prevents you from setting your defense up on the other side.

Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.

If I don't start, I'd like to try to win Sixth Man of the Year. And whenever I'm on the court, I'm just going to give it my all.

I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.

We call media out that hasn't played and have crazy opinions.

If you take the chance to get to know me off the court, you'll see that I'm not the bad guy that everybody wants me to be on the court.

Sometimes I act off emotion, but I also try to speak my mind. Take it or leave it, really.

When I feel something isn't right, I'm going to speak my mind and stand even if it's by myself.

The NBA never wanted to use me to market their work even though I have a huge following and lots of fans. I was the bad guy to them.

Refs need to get over themselves.

I mean, don't get me wrong, being ref is a very tough job - managing 10 of the best athletes in the world. At the same time, I think there is way too much ego from their standpoint.

It's a business when the NBA cuts you, trades you or waives you. But you're a villain, as a player, when you take your future and your happiness in your own hands and it's unfortunate.

With 2Pac you can't go wrong.

It's us against the world when you step out on that court.

I'm listening to 2Pac the whole time. While I'm getting treatment, while I'm stretching, I'm listening to music.

People don't realize that everyone in the NBA is really good. The difference is having a coach that believes in you.

I think people on Twitter know that I'm real and I speak from the heart most of the time, and sometimes I'm going to make a mistake.

I kind of have a bad-guy reputation.

Athletes vs Cancer is a foundation that I started in 2008 after I lost my mom to cancer in 2007, and our goal is early detection, preventative screening and just really spreading knowledge about the cancer disease.

Everything I do is major news.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.

If I look at a ref funny, I'm getting a tech. If I say anything wrong on the street, it's on Worldstar or TMZ.

Everybody is looking for me to fail.

I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.

I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

If I had to say how much I've paid in fines over my career, I'm sure it's over $500,000, going toward $1 million.

I think what I came from and what I saw molded me into a certain person. Nothing was ever wrapped or a silver spoon, so I don't think I would know how to live and I don't think I'd want to live if it wasn't a grind.

I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I'm at that I don't take anything for granted.

I was one of those guys that really had to fight to make it in this league. Early on, I really had to do whatever it took, whether it be fight, rough people up, to make the team. I looked at it as it's either me or them - and it was going to be me.

Where I came from, my upbringing, the ups and downs it took to get my career started, when I made it, I played every game like it was my last game.

I was the bad guy, the NBA bad guy.

I really feel blessed to be in a position I am, to even have an opportunity to play in the league.

When you're going through a divorce it's hard.

I'm a competitor.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

I'm a football player playing basketball.

I respect all my opponents, but I fear no one.

I just play hard.