The home run doesn't mean jack. You still have to come back and play and make the plays when they have men in scoring position.

That's when the book is good: the struggle part,

I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all. I believe that when you sign a contract, you play until the end, and then at the end of that you sign another one. If they choose to call you and say, 'You know what? We'll give you an extension,' you deal with that accordingly. Honestly, I've done good things, but you still have to establish yourself where you have a right to talk - 'You know what? I deserve this right now.' I haven't done that. I just want to play.

When we get cold (today), we've just got to strap up. We've got to play defense as hard as we can until we start making shots.

It's hard to shoot 67 percent when you're in the gym by yourself. So that tells me we didn't play well on defense. We didn't show any defensive intensity.

Just because he's declaring now doesn't mean he has to run. Look what happened (in the recall campaign) when everybody thought he wasn't going to run and he decided on the Leno show he was.