You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

I'm not going to disappear.

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could in an instant.

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