My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

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

If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.