I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

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.

I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

I don't get a big charge out of being the leading scorer. The object of competing is winning. I just try to do what has to be done for us to win. That might be anything at the time - defense, rebounding, passing. I get great satisfaction out of being a team player.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.