Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

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.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

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.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.