If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

Friendship is a full-time job.

I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.