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

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

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 would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.