If you pass the ball to Bill Cartwright, you'll never get the ball from me.

When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

I am competing with what I am capable of.

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.

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.