I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.