The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

It's like I was taught and I'm always saying it. Offense wins games, defense wins championships.

I know I have to be good on pick-and-rolls.

Oh, man, I was a stick in high school. I had a bird chest; I got called that a lot: 'Bird chest.' But I've always been comfortable with my body, even when I was super skinny.

When you're younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

I feel like me and Batman have a lot in common. Out on the basketball court, I'm a vigilante.

I'm going to continue to be the defensive player that my team needs me to be and the real basketball people will get that.

I don't care what other people think about me to be honest with you.

People are always going to be tough on you.

People think you're 30 and think you're old. I hate that.

Being out there, I know how to play the game and know my spots. Just get rebounds, block shots, defend.

I'm just saying if one team out of 30 goes small, that don't mean everybody else is doing it.

Anytime you can help a younger player out that's what you're supposed to do.

I want to play as long as I possibly can.

If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.

In any situation in order to excel and reach the pinnacle with a group of people, there have to be sacrifices.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

Knicks fans are great. New York fans in general are awesome. They're passionate as hell, they know the sports, they know the game.

I like Daniel Alves, I have him as my inspiration.

I want to be in the World Cup.

You can see it with social media and things like that, back in the day it was harder to convince people that the police are wrong, which sounds crazy, but that's how it was back then.

I was fortunate to be raised in Seattle, which was amazing, but that doesn't take away from the fact I was still a black kid growing up in America.

As a young black American you become desensitised to it, it's just like 'oh, another guy, another kid died today.' That's so, so sad cos we are talking about human life, the most sacred thing we have.

My grandfather, my grandmother especially, I have a whole family of activists, they've always told me to stand up for what I believe in.

There's no amount of money that can make me shut up about something I think is wrong.

I think the fact people still don't realise why people are taking a knee and saying 'Black Lives Matter,' people are being so close-minded to the fact that no one is disrespecting the flag, nobody is saying all lives don't matter.

At fullback you have a little bit more defensive responsibility. You have to help out with your center backs a little bit more. As a wing back, you can be a little bit more aggressive with getting forward.

As a wing back, when you get the ball wide, you usually don't have any help out wide. You have to be pretty good on your own out there.

I'm maturing as a person and as a player.

Usually, when I'm in the 3-5-2, it's at the end of the game, in the 80th minute, where I'm really just attacking.

Obviously, when you're getting games, you're getting confidence as well.

I like to attack obviously.

The Premier League is one of the top leagues in the world and I'm a guy that likes to challenge myself, so just to be able to practice against those types of players and play against them every weekend is a dream come true.

For me, I want to win the World Cup. If that's not the goal then I don't think you should be playing.

Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career comes to that point.

Once you start to become OK at something, you learn to enjoy it more.

I've always been fast, it's God-given talent. I just try and use that to my advantage, but I'm learning more and more positionally so I don't have to rely on my pace so much.

Obviously you have to take it the right way, keep your head down, be humble. But I think if you're in an environment where you're challenging yourself, you're only going to improve. So that's honestly what I tried to do when I went to Europe.

I think positionally I've improved. One vs. one I feel more comfortable. I knew that was going to come - obviously that's the kind of thing that comes with experience.

Obviously when you challenge yourself you learn a lot about yourself, and ultimately you're going to get better in whatever field.

When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.

When you're the younger guy, you're kind of only looking after yourself. Obviously you have to be a bit selfish in terms of what you're doing. But when you're the older guy you have to look out for the younger guys as well. If they're making mistakes, they need help, then you help them.

I'm an attacking full-back.

I want to keep getting better.

I think every player aspires to challenge themselves against the very best and that's what I'm hoping to do.

It's a league that you really have to get used to. If you're coming from another one, it's a tough league. Getting the experience playing in a Premier League team and getting hopefully consistent games will be huge for me.

In the Premier League a little half a second can punish you and you just have to be focused for all 90 or 95 minutes, whatever it may be.

The fans just see what's going on on the field, but there's a lot more that goes into it behind the scenes.

Seattle was good for me. I was very comfortable there - not comfortable in terms of it was too easy, but I was at home, I was with my family and friends. It was a great life. I was home. But I think, for me, when I get too comfortable with the lifestyle and everything, I feel that my performances, my focus can go down.

I'm really trying to work on my defensive positioning.