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

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

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.

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

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

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