When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

One man cannot make a team.

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

Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.