I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

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

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.

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.