Quotes from Jay Williams

If I take five seconds to think about something on TV, that five seconds is an eternity.

When I got hurt - everybody knows I shattered my pelvis - all I thought about was running with my kids one day and being able to have a family.

When you're at the bottom, everybody is taking shots at you. It's up to you to stay with it and fight through it.

The rules within the educational system really teach you not push the boundaries, or not to think outside the box. They teach you to think inwardly about what's in the box.

I love to dress in Italian clean-cut three-piece suits.

I see the NCAA holding off as long as possible to continue to make money off of its players. It's almost like modern day slavery.

I am a point guard. It's a job that I'm not scared of.

Legacies are defined not by what happened to you or how it happened. It's how you pick yourself back up and you continue to fight each and every day.

Kobe Bryant demands his teammates to be the best every night, and he's not afraid to challenge them. He's not afraid to challenge them publicly, he's not afraid to challenge them in the locker room, and that's what you need from a leader.

Only having a short dose of an NBA career, my entry into pro basketball started in 2003 and ended up being an entry way onto the world of business.

I've been lucky enough with my NBA money to make some investments in some pretty cool things, whether it be partnering up with Ben Sturner and the Leverage Agency; being involved in an analytics company called Simatree; or creating a production company and working with brands and creating content in house.

I can't imagine the difficulty of going from coaching a college team where you control your own environment to coming to a pro-style where the players control the environment.

The NBA is way more progressive than the NFL or MLB.

I don't really compartmentalize and put players in high school, college, or the pros. For everybody, it's physically and mentally, where are you? How do you evolve? Where's your game at?

I've dreamed about being in the Final Four since I was a little boy.

LeBron's had so many legendary moments because he was in the NBA Finals eight or nine years straight, and because to that his brand will endure and keep growing.

There's nothing like watching basketball being played at its finest.

In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

I don't think forcing an athlete to stay in school does anything for the athlete.

I was a scorer in college. That was the one thing that I loved to do, I loved to score the basketball.

I'd be remiss if I didn't say that a lot of my identity was formed around basketball, and after the accident I had a lot of animosity toward myself because I'd lost the one thing I wanted to do for my entire life.

Five years before my accident in 2003, you saw Kobe and Shaq pull up to games on bikes. Michael Jordan owned a racing team. So it wasn't that weird that I was on a motorcycle, even though it was against team rules. You've got to live your life, you know? But yeah, I made a dumb choice.

I personally love watching greats like Matt Lauer, Scott Pelly, Howard Cossell, Bryant Gumble and others that can stimulate an intelligent, thoughtful, moving conversation or interview.