College Quote by Erik Spoelstra

People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper.

— Eric Bledsoe

I know that my peers around the NBA respect me and I have respect around the NBA.

— Nikola Vucevic

When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever…

— Andre Iguodala

A lot of times when you probably come into the NBA as a younger player, you're gonna probably build your habits based on your…

— Billy Donovan

As you get older, you get less people to hold you accountable, especially in pro sports. The players have all the power. Unless you…

— Diana Taurasi

To be honest, I think NBA experience and years trumps everything else. It's unfortunate but when you come from somewhere else it's known that…

— Patty Mills

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a…

— Andre Iguodala

NBA players, we're directly involved in the tech world whether we know it or not. Media content and wearables directly influence us every day.

— Andre Iguodala

There's just so much free time. In college, you've got study hall, classes, film - all that stuff. In the NBA, it's just practices,…

— Caris LeVert

A lot of people say, once NBA players make it, they forget where they come from or what made them ... Going back to…

— Brandon Jennings

Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and…

— Kawhi Leonard

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

— Caris LeVert