“As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don’t take any crap."

"I want to be the best at whatever I do. I don’t care who gets in the way."

"I’m still trying to be a kid. I really don’t want to feel like an adult."

"I’m not Steve Nash and I never will be."

"If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you’re the biggest guy o the team."

"I like it when someone says something negative about me, because I can put it back in their face."

"I just got a ticking mind—that’s how it is with all the great ones, like Jordan and Iverson."

"Most kids would be like, ‘My dad’s never around.’ But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me."

"Right now it’s turning out well for me, and not a lot of players can say that. I’m just going to enjoy it from now on."

"If they are scoring, I keep feeding them. If they are missing them, then I’ll do me."

"You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win."

"Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player."

"This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?"

"You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job."

"As a player leaving early, you always look back and wonder what could have been. But you have to be happy with your decisions, because you ultimately have to live with them."

"When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird."

"I hate it when you see talented teams with a lot of scorers and they can’t get along with each other."

“When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.’”

“I want to apologize to everybody for letting them down with my conduct, and I promise to do better in the future.”