Chris Bosh

I'm more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team's potential. ”

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.' ”

At the end of the day, I looked at my options. I wanted to be in the NBA. I wanted to pursue my dream. It was my choice. But sometimes, just for fun, I think about how it would've been if I'd stayed in college. ”

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business. ”

The way I look at it, competing at a high level, whether that's business, art or film, athletics, anything you do, there's a certain way to go about it. ”

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, 'Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.' ”

I learned HTML in high school and then graduated to CSS. It's a great way to exercise my mind. But it's frustrating as hell. ”

I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the gym. ”

If you're an athlete in this game, you have to protect your own interests, and you have to protect your body and your family. ”

I feel that I was chosen to do it. It's taken me all over the world and given me opportunities to take care of my family and give me experiences that I would not have had. I think about those things and what I owe to the game. ”