If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

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.

For me, the bold jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis reflected the bold attitude in African-Americans finding their political identity and voice.