I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.