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

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

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

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

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

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