I wanted to go the NBA and win a championship because I've never seen a grown man cry the way Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan cried when they won a championship.
Every time we play, we want to win, that's for sure. It may be the World Championship, the Olympics, the NBA Championship or the South American Championship, but we always want to win.
A lot of people don't understand that playing in the NBA, the toughest thing is to win an NBA championship. I was in the NBA 15 years. I'd been in the playoffs. I'd been in the Finals. But it took me 15 years to finally win one.
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
Ever since I was a kid, I'd imagine that I was making a break to win the world championship.
I went through ups and downs as a young player dealing with criticism and things of that nature. To finally win that first NBA championship, it was definitely a relief of a lot of pressure and frustration we dealt with as a team. It was great to bring a championship to the city of Chicago.
Everybody's goal in the NBA is to win a Championship - that's the ultimate.
I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.
For Australians to make it in the NBA, it's very hard, and for Australians to make it and win an NBA championship is even harder.
My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.
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.
I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.
Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.
Our goal is to win the conference championship and go to the playoff and win the national championship and we recruit with that attitude.