When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

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

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.

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

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

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.