My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.