In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you. So if you touch me, I'm gonna throw the ball toward the rim and get shots.

If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.

I'd never seen my father stand up. As far as I can remember, my father was always in a wheelchair. I always remembered that. And I remember my first basketball game, ever, he rolls into the gym, he stays by the door and he watches me play. And that was the only game he ever saw me play because he passed away shortly after that.

I played varsity in high school as a 9th grader. I came off the bench during the first game of the season and had 25 points. Well, I became a starter after that and in the second game I scored 53 points.

Every time I'd ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.

A lot of guys ask me, 'Why did you go straight from high school to the NBA?' So I ask them, 'If you had the opportunity to take your dream job at 17- or 18-years-old, would you do it?'

I want a real opportunity to win a championship.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

Once you're there, you'll love playing for the Raptors and love playing for the country, but by the fourth or fifth month into the season, you're just like damn man, I wanna go home.

I was raised in a musical house. Marvin Gaye. Boyz II Men. Jodeci. My mom always played that Toni Braxton song, 'Un-Break My Heart.' When I hear that song, it still puts me right back in the car with her.

The structure of college basketball never made sense to me. The coach is the star and you get up at 5:30 A.M. to run before class. That was never appealing to me.

I didn't even care where I was drafted.

You have all the ambition of winning a championship and competing in your hometown. For me, it didn't work out that way.

If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about getting education.

If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.

What AI was able to do at his size, with the teams that he had was remarkable, you can't take that from him.

When I got traded to the Raptors Kyle Lowry told me, 'We expect you to average 15 points a game off the bench.' And I said, 'Perfect, so you need me here.' And that made me feel wanted. So once he put that expectation on me, it just made everything fall into place.

I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me - 'Yo, you're undersized.' I guess when I got older and my body started hurting, I'm like, 'I'm not as big as I thought I was.' So I always played with the mentality that I was bigger than I actually was.

I can't shoot straight-up. I've always played crooked. One of my coaches says I play backwards. I do everything backwards. I don't have coordination. It's weird to watch me play.

I wanted to prove that I could be a starter. And then once I realized I was gonna be a sixth man and it wasn't gonna change, I just relished the role. I just said, 'I'm going to make it really hard on whoever it is that has to guard me these next 10-11 minutes that I'm in here.' And after a while you just create an identity.

A guy tried to rob me but decided not to because of whatever I do in the community. He's a Lou Williams fan, so he didn't rob me.

There's crime everywhere.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

I've always been friends with guys who are 6, 7 years older than me.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

I realize the responsibility of being a starting point guard.

Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.

I'm conscious of my turnovers.

I've always been kind of a fourth-quarter guy.

It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.

I always thought I was a good shooter.

Any time you make a basketball team you have the opportunity to be successful.

Obviously, Ray Allen is a huge threat, Eddie House coming off the bench is a huge threat, as far as three-pointers go.

I'm not going to be the guy that says, 'I'm the new point guard, look at me, look at me, put me on billboards and sell my jersey.' I'm not going to be him. I'm going to do my job.

I'm not easily influenced by a lot of people.

I would love to start if a coach considered me as a starter.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.

Honestly, I was a troublemaker. The environment I grew up in, my mom and my sister, they decided they were going to sign me up in every single thing to keep me busy. I played football, basketball, baseball. Anything, whatever was in season, I was signed up for it. Basketball was one of the things that just stuck.

Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues.

I watch a lot of Bill Maher.

I'm a country boy.

I love hooping. I love competing.

I didn't realize I was that short!

I just challenge the big guys and attack them, and use my quickness to my advantage.

As I get older I'm seeing the game clearer.

Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.

I was raised in the NBA. I've seen some guys stay and I've seen a lot go. I've watched James Harden be a rival of mine for Sixth Man of the Year to an MVP candidate.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

Teams know what I bring to the table.

I want to be successful. I want to be able to win.