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.

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.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

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.

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

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.