You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
You have to be able to accept failure to get better.
I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.
I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.
Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'
I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.
When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.
I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
I don't read books much.
