Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Most people who are healthy, and I'm healthy, can't even live my life. Trust me. I get up 530-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles. I lift weights, and then I'm at work until 8-9 o'clock at night.

Even as a fierce competitor I try to smile.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

I wouldn't do the 'Magic Hour' again, but I would do TV again. The 'Magic Hour' is not me. Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.