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" I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it. "

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" I won at every level - all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I've won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won't be fulfilled until I win at the highest level. "

" You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble. "

" 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?' "

" It's always a struggle growing up in Akron. "

" When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports. "

" I'm just a little kid from Akron. "

" I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know? "

" As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals. "

" There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn't bother me too much. "

" I like criticism. It makes you strong. "

" Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast. "

" When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun. "

" To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players. "

" I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it. "

" Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school. "

" In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160. "

" 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. "

" You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress. "

" I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up. "

" No place is better than Akron. "

" But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out. "

" 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. "

" I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. "

" There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean. "

" I do have motivation. A lot of motivation. "

" I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. "

" Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. "

" Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship. "

" Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it. "

" 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. "