I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.