Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

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