I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

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

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

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

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've never forgotten. He used his extensive knowledge of art history to illustrate the development of Western culture and politics.