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.

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

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

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.