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 passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.

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 don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

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

The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

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.