It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

I like being by myself.