I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.

Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.

Getting a well-rounded education and developing a love of learning that hopefully will continue to last my lifetime certainly helped prepare me to understand what's coming at me in this world and to adapt.

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

I'm concerned that young people, far too often, abdicate their responsibilities of learning and adapting and give that over to people who may not always have their best interests at heart.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who persevered, who in many ways overcame, who recognized the importance of giving back, particularly to our youth, and as someone who tried to reach back and to catapult the next generation beyond him.

There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.