When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.

We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and fifteen or an hour and thirty minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

You have to be able to say, OK, that happened back then. Now let's take it from here and see what happens. It would be very easy to hate people for the rest of your life, and some people have done that. You've got to deal with what's happening now and try to make things better.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.