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.

I like being by myself.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

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

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.