I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear. Phil isn't going to bail us out because of our mental lapses.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.