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.

[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 time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

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

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.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.