Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

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.

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

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

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.