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

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

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.

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.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

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.