I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
“I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?”
“Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.”