You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.

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.

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.

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.

I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.