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

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.