My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, 'What if you stop growing?'

I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.

My career was dwindling down and I got to be in Golden State for two years and show I still have it.

I feel like in the course of my career, I've been in the iPhone era and the dilution of the big man.

I want to be very honest with members about what I can offer, and I don't want to run in a leadership campaign promising things that I know are unachievable or would be very impractical to try to introduce.

For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.

The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

It was my goal and dream to be selected to the Olympic team, so I knew going into it the amount of responsibility I was given.