I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

The trick in writing children's books is to set up danger, mystery and excitement on page one. Force the kid to turn the page . . . Then in the middle of each chapter there's a dramatic point of excitement, and at chapter's end, a cliffhanger.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

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.