[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.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.

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

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.