If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.
The key to success is failure
I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.
I will not quit this game because of what the media has done to me.
I am privileged to have played basketball.
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.