We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Friendship is a full-time job.

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