Brook Lopez

I love drawing. It's a passion of mine, and I'm a creative person. I always have my sketch book with me.

I've always felt that I shot the ball well from distance, but it's just having the opportunity to finally do so. It's great and I'm trying to take advantage of it.

I like adding stuff to my game, I want to be as complete a player as possible. So I want to be able to do a bit of everything and be good, or great at everything.

In my family, Robin loves planning the trips. He does the itineraries and everything, always sends them out in a mass text.

I can be a guy the guys can rely on, an anchor in the paint, whether it's blocking shots or being on that help side.

I've been lucky enough to have good coaches my whole career who just teach you the right way, teach you the fundamentals.

I always had confidence in myself shooting.

We were really going with what worked at Stanford. It was difficult for players to 'D' me up in the post, so that was a strength of ours and we just pounded it in the block.

I love Hawkeye. I think it has something to with how he's such a marksman from far away. That's something I'd love to be on the court.

Your shot might not be falling, but there's still lots of other things you can do on the court.

I think one of the coolest things, really a blessing of being in the league, is just being able to travel so much. You're fortunate that you don't have to pay for the traveling usually or anything like that.

I can remember in second grade coming back from school and telling my mom, 'You know what, before I play in the NBA, I want to go to Stanford.' Because of her, I had everything figured out.

I've always been a big Avengers guy: Nightcrawler, Hawkeye and Iceman.

When I go to a foreign country I want to explore and get lost, discover the real place.

I've approached a couple of publishing houses about getting my work in print one day. I'd like to concentrate on sci-fi or action adventure.

I think how you approach the game creatively definitely comes from how you grew up and how creative you are as a person.

I've played with a lot of great players.

Robin is a really good defender, runs well, dribbles the ball and plays hard and does whatever a coach wants him to do.

I went to classes on writing for film and theatre as well as short stories at Stanford.

I read a lot of comic books and they don't mention Dwight Howard much.