Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

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

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

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

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.