Be optimistic about everything in life.

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

I've had tendinitis since college.

Work ethics eliminates fear.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

It doesn't matter who scores. If you have an opportunity to score, you score.