Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.

Bogut - I wouldn't be the defender I am without Bogut. He taught me a ton. Angles. How to guard the post. You name it, he taught me a ton.

Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.

I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

The goal is to win a championship. Every team enters the season with the goal to win the championship, but realistically, there are five or six teams with a realistic shot at winning a championship.

Let me get my money's worth if I'm going to get some techs.

If you've got to second-guess talking to a teammate, what you have will never work.

I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

I've never been a guy who has said 'OK' about stuff. That's not me. That's not my personality. If I think something's wrong, I express that.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

I have the mindset of a mid-level guy or a minimum guy. My path here wasn't expected: my path wasn't that I was going to the NBA and making $16 million a year. So I identify more with those guys, and I want to be a voice for them. I want to help them elevate their status in the league. That's my goal.

I'm blessed. I get to play the game I love for a living and make a lot of money doing it.

I don't really mind any scrutiny. It doesn't bother me. I'm going to still live my life and do everything I do the same way and not lose any sleep.

You see the guys sign the big contract, you see everybody on TV, but you don't see all the work that goes into that. It's a grind. And a lot of people don't see that grind.

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.

I know what I'm capable of, and I try to go out and prove that.

I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.

A guy that's going to do all of the dirty work, that guy that is willing to defend anyone and do the little things and not really care about all of that other stuff. I think every championship team needs that.

No one is going to tell me I'm too small to do whatever, to do anything. That's not up to them, and I'll never give anyone that power to say that.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.

Michigan State means so much to my life and me.