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All I’ve been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.
My main goal is I want to win a ring.
I’m not an interior decorator. I just shoot 3s.
I want to retire here, man. The Suns gave me an opportunity to revive myself and why would I want to go anywhere?
Certain games aren’t going to be my game. Certain games aren’t going to be other people’s games. As long as we win with the main goal to make the playoffs, that’s all that matters.
I was honestly contemplating retirement. A lot of people don’t know that, but I was done.
Things, for me in Boston, did not end badly.
Once you give up, you know you’re done.
Once I get in the game, I just feel like I have to give it my all.
I’m never going to be a point guard, but you always have guards that get the rebound and take it coast-to-coast.
You have a lot of guys who’ve been given opportunities in the league. I’m not one of those guys.
A lot of times you get a good opportunity and it never comes again.
I’m trying to go to the playoffs. That’s my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.
I don’t really get excited about games any more because I don’t know if I’m going to play.
I don’t want to be remembered for dunks, even though that will probably happen.
My son goes around shooting the basketball saying, ‘Isaiah Thomas!’
I never failed a class. Never.
I’ll never be in a dunk contest again. I don’t ever want to be a part of it.
When you see the neighborhood that you grew up in being underwater, either you can sit down and look like everybody else, or you can get up and go try to help somebody that needs to be helped.
I didn’t think I was going to school to be a doctor – no offense, but that wasn’t me.
That’s a great trade. I’d trade myself for Kevin Garnett.
Most of my career, I’ve always kind of been off the bench, so, for me, it’s not about if I start or not.
I’ve seen young guys break down in those situations. They’re cruising along, playing great, then their minutes get funky and they fall apart. Some of them never recover.
I’ve been kind of thrown under the bus a few times in my career.
The teachers told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.
I didn’t understand a winning atmosphere until I got to Dallas.
Some nights you’re going to have a lot of energy, some nights you’re not. The great ones find energy from nothing.
As a player you do kind of see you might need to get something going. Maybe it’s diving on the ball, diving on the floor for a loose ball. Or maybe it’s something that’ll just energize the team, a lob dunk or a great pass or a great defensive play or an open shot, anything.
I cried after I woke up from surgery and saw that my finger was gone. I was looking at my hand, going, ‘Where the hell is my finger at?’
At the end of the day, I’m a professional. I’ve got to continue to work hard.
I’m just trying to look at everything as positive as I can to keep me motivated.
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I’ve been trying to figure out what mistakes I’m making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.
I have vets like Antoine Walker, Greg Buckner, Mark Madsen, and Michael Doleac who keep me motivated to want to get better.
I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.
I want to be that guy who stops players.
My Rottweiler really don’t talk much. He just bites.
I was able to take some time off with my family, my friends, get a better look at what I can do to be a better player on the court. It’s been a good little process for me.
I hate talking about the dunk contest. I’m just so sick of the dunk contest. I’m done with that. That point of my life I’m over with.
I think I have the ability to be athletic on both ends of the floor, so I just need to go out there and play with a lot of energy, a lot of enthusiasm.
When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn’t understand the business.
Not a day goes by that I don’t think about my finger, but I don’t really miss it.
I think in Phoenix Phoenix is like the run and gun team. We used to do a drill where we’d try to score in the first seven seconds. We used to do that in practice.
I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don’t really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I’m doing it.
I’m never going to stop because I had a bad game. I’m never going to stop because somebody thinks that I can’t do something. I’m going to always play the way I feel I should play, because I wouldn’t have got to here if I felt like I couldn’t.
I’m me. I’m not into to all that GQ fashion.