As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

I was not a great ballhandler. I just worked very hard at it, and I got to be a good ballhandler-a competent ballhandler-but never a great ballhandler.

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.

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.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

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.