When you go out there, you're not just representing your country or the NBA: you're representing your beliefs. You want to play hard for Someone who died for you.
The initial feelings when you step into the Olympic arena representing your country, your community, representing yourself can be really overwhelming.
It's the best feeling, representing your country, and I always want to perform and give 100% for the team.
Obviously representing your country, having U.S.A. on your chest is one of the most important things you can do to give back to your country.
I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. I'm not just representing myself or my country: I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me.
Representing your country at any level is amazing.
Representing your country is a highlight in everybody's career.
Representing your country in any circumstances is a huge honour.
I think it's important to maintain this momentum and especially when you are representing your country, you have a lot of pressure of people around you and you have to be at your best behaviour.
There is always a pressure if you play every game and especially when you are representing your country.
When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
The Olympics is about representing your country, and if you get an opportunity to play you give it all you have.
People on the right say to people like me, Oh, you hate America. And I always say, No, I love America. I want it back. I don't want you representing it. I don't want torture representing it. If I hated it, I'd be okay with being represented by the torturers.
I grew up watching as much Olympics as I could, checking out all the sports. As a kid, you dream of playing your sport and representing your country and seeing the famous rings.
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
I always knew that whenever you go out there, you're not just representing yourself. You're representing a heritage that's behind you, your culture, so you always have to do things, like, bigger, badder, better.