“We all dreamed about this moment, just to be able to give back to your mom and dad, ... We can never give back to them what they've given to us for all of our years. But just trying to start, just by telling your mom and dad they don't have to work if they don't want to, or take them home a brand new car, something they've never had, it's just a wonderful feeling.”
“I was fairly decent, I could have done better. Jason Kidd came at me one time with that crossover and that's an extremely quick move. That's J-Kidd, he's been doing it all his life. I told him 'great move.' That's all I could say.”
“Even though I said that to some kids, I wanted to say that anyway. So I'm kind of glad that it came out the way it came out. I don't back down from anything that I say.”
“There's no beef between us, ... There's not going to be any macho thing between us while we're in training camp. We're just coming into training camp trying to make our team better.”
“That's the attitude that I'm trying to bring to this team, ... I'm trying to instill it in everybody, even the guys who are veterans on this team. We're coming in to win games, and we're coming in to try to make the playoffs. We shouldn't settle for anything less.”