“When you’re playing against a whole bunch of All-Stars, it’s like a video game. There’s so much talent on the floor at once.”

When I’m playing the 1-guard, I’m kind of seeing everything that’s going on.

I don’t leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

I love the gym; I love basketball. I’m really passionate about it.

Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it.

My focus is basketball, and that’s it.

I went to my agent and told them, ‘I want to be on another Disney show.’

I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn’t consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I’m a great listener to music.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

I can’t even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father’s Day means so much to me. I’m so close to him. He’s my big brother, but also my father.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it, and some people can’t.

I’m a big video game fan.

One game I’m always on is ‘NBA Jam.’ And ‘Bejeweled,’ games like that, and ‘Temple Run.’

I do have a chef, but I still go out. Sometimes I can still blend in, and sometimes I get a little bombarded. It’s the best of both worlds.

Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.

There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

If we want to defend the country, we have to defend against who’s coming in.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.