You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I quickly gravitated to rock and roll music in the mid-'60s with the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

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.