I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.