[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

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.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

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

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