We're never satisfied with where we are as players.

Honestly, I just try to take care of my body as much as possible: eating, recovery, just making sure that I'm always on top of staying healthy and making sure my body is 100 percent throughout the season.

I've been a fan of 'Call of Duty' for a long time.

Well, I'm definitely gonna focus on being a better all-around player.

I was born in a neighborhood called the Third Ward.

Houston is awesome. I love it.

It's very hot and humid in Houston. Being in L.A. for 10 years, that kind of spoiled me a little bit, so every time I got back home, I'm like, 'Damn it's hot out here.' But I love it.

What I am today, is from Houston and my friends, my closest friends, we all went to high school together.

Anyone who is a post man who's a huge offensive threat, I definitely want to play against to try to limit them to as few points as possible. It's a challenge for me, but I love it though.

It's always a tough process when you're always the best guy on your team, in high school, in middle school, AAU and things like that. Then you come together, and you may not be the best guy on the team. You may have to adjust. You may not be a go to scorer. You may have to be a picker. You may have to be a rebounder.

Oh, if I played in the All-Star game, I'm playing defense - hard for the first quarter. And I want to get a couple of dunks, too, like I do in a regular game.

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

Growing up, I was a parks and recs kid.

I'm just so fortunate.

The leadership aspect of U.S.A. basketball has really helped me out a lot.

It's awesome for your coach to trust you and have confidence in you.

I just try to focus in to what I'm supposed to do at the line and shoot the basketball.

You can get reps up in the gym as much as you want, hours and hours, but when it comes to a game, there's so many different aspects going on, so many different things.

Honestly now, I'm so much more comfortable at the line and I've gotten so many reps up. Now I feel like when I shoot it, I go up so much more confident thinking, 'OK I'm going to make this one.'

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

People can talk about how much they care about you, but the small things like this, people taking time out of their day to come and support, it's amazing.

To improve my free throws I went back to the mechanics and really learning how to have form and shoot the ball, so I have to get comfortable with that.

To be the first person to do anything, you're a legend.

My grandma tells me, 'Do you focus when you're up there?' I'm like, 'Yeah, I think about shooting a free throw.' I don't miss them on purpose. I promise, I'm not betting on the games.

Tim Duncan is one of the greatest power forwards in the history of our game. Being younger and just watching him play, winning championships, that was always cool to be able to play against him.

I really thought about being on one team for my entire career, and that was really important to me.

This is very special, winning the gold for your country.

I just don't want to go to the All-Star game to be in the dunk contest and go home. I want to be there competing in the game with a couple of my teammates.

First Team All-Defense, that was great, that was one of my goals coming into this league, and I've got that a couple times. But First Team All-NBA, that's bigger than a lot of things; that's bigger than being an All-Star.

I mean, I'm 6-11, and I'm pretty athletic, I think.

I'm not like the skinniest guy, so I feel like I should at least get 10 rebounds for our team a game.

I really put a lot of pressure on myself.

My motivation is only for us to win a championship. Anything else, I'm not concerned about.

Everybody wants to play late, everybody wants to be clutch.

I just want to be the best defensive player I can be and anything I can give us offensively is a bonus.

My first, second, third, fourth and fifth priority is definitely defense. I want to be everywhere and help everybody.

Defense is my main priority, and offense is going to come second.

I love to compete.

When I'm wearing my uniform I'm still locked into the game.

It's always fun playing in your home state.

I think there are always growing pains with teams.

I'm going to continue to get better at the line.

Dirk was obviously a player that I looked up to. In high school I actually wore No. 41 in honor of Dirk. He was the first player where I was like this guy is seven-feet tall and shooting jump shots and shooting threes, this is what I want to be like.

It's hard to have fun with your friends with your bosses around.

I mean, I love Walter White.

I think what's bad is that there aren't centers in the All-Star voting anymore.

Every decade the game changes and evolves, but by no means do I think the center position is dead, because there's still a lot of great centers.

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.

Defense all starts with the ball and the rim-protector is the last resort, the last line of defense. I take pride in that.

With my size and my athleticism, I should be at least double-digit rebounds every game.