I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.