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.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

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.

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.

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.