As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

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

Your mind is what makes everything else work.