You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

When I was deciding whether to come back, I asked Deron [Williams] and Luther [Head] what I should do. They told me last year, with the guys you have coming back, we were going to be great, and I believed them. These guys seem like they're young, but they have experience. We know what we're doing.

When me and James [Augustine] were sophomores, we had to win out. It's not a big deal. You just have to go on the road mentally ready to play. It's possible. We just have to work hard and believe we can do it.

You mean so much to me. When someone wears my number, I think it represents our whole team. My teammates make me better. My coaches make me better.

There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same management.

The more I delve into the numbers, the better the quarter seemed,