I gave everything I had. All your feelings, all your energy, you put everything out there. And you come up short.
The media attention - the negative, in particular - it makes you a different person.
If they need me to score 30, I can go do it. If they need me to just rebound and defend, I can do that. I can play this game, just in case people forgot. You just carry that chip on your shoulder, and you go out there and do what I was put on this Earth to do.
I don't jump as high and I'm not as fast as Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. I don't have many highlight plays, but I can play this game.
I'm still learning more about myself and my situation and really, off the court, how to function there, because I'm kind of getting the taste of retirement now.
My house is going - kids running out, my wife is running in and out - but I like to sit down and have breakfast.
Everybody says they want to win. But when you start talking about sacrifice and doing what's right for the team, it's like, 'Wait a minute, I didn't mean that. I want to win, but...' There's always a conjunction with that. It's never what you think it is. And it's always, like, your weakest point where you got to do it.
My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.
The post area I had to unlearn. And yeah, now it's a relearning process. It's different. It's learning what works and what doesn't work.
I love Miami: great town, always loved it, a great place to play basketball.
I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the gym.
No, I don't want to coach. I don't want to coach.
I'm used to practicing. I'm used to the schedule. That's kind of what I was born to do. That's what I've been doing my whole life.
If a doctor tells me, 'Hey, that's it, and this is how it is,' and I don't buy that, then I think I have the right to disagree with you.
You're playing games every two or three nights, so there's no real time off.
If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family.
At the end of the day, I looked at my options. I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to pursue my dream. It was my choice. But sometimes, just for fun, I think about how it would've been if I'd stayed in college.
I had friends around campus and great teammates. I didn't want to leave. I didn't expect to be regarded and scouted as such a high pick, so it was a crazy twist to reality. I'd always wanted to make the NBA. It was my dream. Then all of a sudden, people were telling me I'd be the fourth pick if I entered the draft.
My dad used to play every other weekend with me when I was young. I started getting better, but he could always beat me. Then one day, he realized the jig was up. And he stopped playing me just before I could beat him.
I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.
