A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

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.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.

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.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.