I learned early on the value and the power of music to inspire and to drive me.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

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.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.