I always wanted to get better, I always wanted to be the best, and I knew from a young age, so I kept putting in the hard work and kept training around the outside courts outside my house and it paid off.

It's cool to turn some heads.

It's cool to be a pioneer in something, especially in basketball in Canada, it's pretty good.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

At Kentucky, that was my job - coming off screens, catch and shoot, spacing the floor - no hesitations. Just go right into my shot - don't focus on the defender.

When I was six years old, I was always playing with the 10-year-olds. When I was 10, I was always playing with the 14-year-olds.

Not every cop is bad, not every white person is bad or racist.

Everything is good when you're winning. But true colors come out when you lose.

The margin between winning and losing is slim.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

I don't want to be hitting one day then not hitting my shots the next day.

I really pride myself on playing for Canada and representing the country in any way I can.

Coach Cal really makes you look good.

I always bounce back.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

My dad knows me better than anybody else. He probably knows me better than me.

I was very disciplined growing up. If I didn't want to run hills, I ran hills; if I didn't want to jog around the block, I jogged around the block.

I have excellent balance. That's a learned behavior.

Fatigue is one thing. Injuries are another. But if you are just tired because you just practiced - well, I'm not having that.

The color of my skin should not determine whether I live or die.

The calls aren't always going to go your way, and you can't complain about it. I tried to learn that as a young player, and you just got to play through it.

I myself have seen the same racism happen to me and my Dad... I think about all the stories I have growing up with my Dad how obvious it is.

The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it's so blatant... It's so out in the open that if you can't see it, then you are part of the problem because it is very obvious.