Quotes from Andre Iguodala

Even if you shoot 60, now you're aiming for 59. Golf is something you can never master.

Math was my favorite subject, so numbers were always running through my mind.

It's definitely important for kids to learn in many different settings.

I don't really shop too much. I shop a few times a year.

I always wanted to present myself well and express my style with my clothes, as well as who I was as a basketball player.

Seattle was my favorite team growing up, so I know a little bit about Coach Karl and his history. He's one of the best coaches in the game, well-respected by much of his peers and much of his players.

The biggest thing is to give it back. You want to leave the game in a better situation than you came in with it. That's really important to me, especially being an avid reader and just learning about how to build businesses, learning how to make the most of the business you're in, the ins and outs of the relationships that you build as well.

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

The key to success is to find things that you have a passion for and would enjoy doing, even if you weren't getting paid to do it.

I'm just really excited to play basketball in America and to be free and all that.

I came to the Bay Area not just to play basketball but to explore business interests.

I wanted to be the best player, so I thought in order for me to be the best player, I had to guard the best player on the court.

My whole life, I've felt like I can do anything on the basketball court, from playing point guard in high school to having to play center one year in high school, doing everything in college and going through different roles in Philadelphia.

It's natural to me. I played point guard my whole life up until my senior year of high school. Most people don't know that. It's just in my game.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

When things aren't going right, I can get out on the golf course, and when things are going really good on the court, I can go and enjoy the scenery, enjoy the weather. And when I'm too high, I can have golf humble me and beat me up a little bit.

The same way you train yourself to be physically gifted player - whether you do weights, or running to get in shape or swimming - the mental side is the same way. You've got to train yourself to be ready for whatever.

I'm a collector of designer backpacks.

There are a lot of guys who average a lot of points, but they make the game hard for themselves, and they make the game hard for their teammates, and that's why you never really see them win or get deep in the playoffs.

I owe a lot to my teammates.

Philly will always have a special place in my heart, and I will cherish the great memories with the city and my teammates there.

The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but being singled out, it's like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it's like, whatever.