I've got my iPod and I've got it on shuffle. If I'm not ready for one, I'll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.

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

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.

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.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

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

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.