7 Quotes by Stephen McDowell

My great-grandparents own a youth camp back in Indiana. It's a Christian-based camp where they take inner-city youths out into the country. So I want to incorporate some of the same ideas, but just put basketball in there.

Just to see my family come from Indiana. I had my grandparents. I had people there, family from Indiana come all the way down there just to support me. That meant a lot to me.

My motivation comes from the Lord. My favorite verse is, 'Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men ...' (Colossians 3:23). As long as that remains my motivation I can always work hard.

My most memorable moment was seeing a Mercedes Benz trash truck. They had Mercedes Benz' over there for everything -- taxi-drivers -- it was just a normal car over there. That was crazy to me; to see the trash men pull up in a Benz. I never would have expected that.

The thing that means the most to me are the relationships I build between myself and the coaches, and myself and the teammates. That really means a lot to me.

It was something I definitely took some time to reflect about.

I have some individual goals, but I'd like to really just focus on the team, and really just keep that first. I have some goals of my own, but keep the team first and I'll work on improving myself after those.