I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.

My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

It seemed like whatever I touched, I was breaking record after record. I just knew I was on. I completely destroyed all existing shooting records there - an omen of things to come.

He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.