"What you are as a person is far more important then what you are as a basketball player"

This quote implys that it doesn't matter how you are in the outside the inside is what counts when it comes to who you are. The things you do are what represent you. Your characteristics and skills are one thing but what you do i what symbolizes you. When you do things that are bad then you are seen as a bad person even if you do everything else you do is perfect. When you show you can't be trusted on then that's when you know that  you are seen as  an unworthy person. When choosing the wrong you gotta remember that it all reflects back on you. Every destitution you take builds up who you are and the way everyone else sees you. You can't choose the wrong and be seen as someone that is good. Everything that is done have reconstructions can be negative, can be positive it all just depends on you. that's why you are what you show not by what you play nor under a title given to you.