On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Live every day as if it were Saturday night.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

Winning is only important in war and surgery.