If Anthony Johnson ever gets a jumper, who's going to stop him?

That's what I tried to share in this book, Back From The Dead, the ability to learn, to dream, to hope. In a world that is far too often selling fear and death, I'm selling hope and life and success and that's why I chose to be part of the Grateful Dead.

I have always wanted to be part of something special, and when I got to Boston.. actually, when I bought, begged and pleaded my way onto the Celtics.. it was already a championship team. I was just glad to be able to sit there and cheer and to be Larry Bird's valet, to be sure that his shoes were fine and his uniform was folded neatly.

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

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.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.