You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.

I think in every lesson there's a blessing, and there's so many blessings from all the lessons I've had to go through in life.

I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

A win is a win, regardless of how you look at it.

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.