“I'm just trying to be positive. I like the guys I'm around. Even though we're not at the record I'd like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. I've been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.”
![“I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24b/barack-obama-17_basketball-player_i-was-never-great-but-i-was-a-good-baske_2893971.jpg)
