If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

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.

I just shoot until I feel good.

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.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.