Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

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

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.