The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.