I guess I'd rather be comfortable and play well because I'm comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't enjoy myself.

I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.

I've benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

You can find advantages to being small.

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

You don't get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn't expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don't want to take that for granted.

I heal quickly, and I stay in good shape, and I will stay in good shape.

Depending on the point in the game and what's necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is - heck, if it's a screen - and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.

The main thing I worry about with the shoes I wear is comfort. What you're comfortable wearing is what you're going to play your best in.

The games can go any way. As we know in this league, you can win by 30 or lose by 30 the next night. That is just the way the league is.

I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.

I'm not a cerebral player. When I'm out on the floor, I try to play.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

I was thinking back when Karl Malone and I, when one of us would be in the weight room early in the morning, and the other one wasn't there, the first comment to the other person would be, 'It's mighty lonely up here.'

My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

Mostly, I go in the weight room and visit.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It's not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.

I don't go home to parades.

All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It's the little things you learn when you're little that apply in college.