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

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.

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 always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

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

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.