I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

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

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

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.