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.

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.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

And during the time when I was getting a lot of criticism and the team wasn't doing so well, I think it would have been much harder for me if I was just sat at home on my own. But when you've got a beautiful daughter to take care of, you don't even think about it.