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.

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

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 was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

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

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?

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