Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

I just try to play every game like it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

God has not only given us strength and wisdom, but also the thought of perseverance and determination that makes us stronger when the going gets tough.