I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

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.

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.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.