Attitude is altitude.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

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 liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

Goals determine what you're going to be.