Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

I know what's within me even if you can't see it yet...I have something more important than courage, I have patience. I will become what I know I am.

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

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

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.

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

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