I think everybody should have the attitude that you can't allow yourself to be hurt. You avoid a lot just with that attitude.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

I've played games where I thought I played one of my better games, and statistically, there's nothing there, and vice versa. I've never based how I feel about my performance on stats.

I enjoy coaching.

You have a different personality in front of the world than you do in front of your pals at home. I like to keep them separate.

I didn't want to get caught up in the mind-set that, 'Wait a minute, I'm ahead of Magic. I better slow down.'

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have to use their minds instead of just their memories. It's tough duty.

It's not win or die at my house. We're all competitive, but it's not the type to get stressed out by it.

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was from my parents. Though I can't match them, I'd like to be that kind of parent.

Essentially, when you join a team, you're making a commitment to your team. You can't take that lightly.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It's the little things you learn when you're little that apply in college.

I don't go home to parades.

If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It's not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

Mostly, I go in the weight room and visit.

To be a great player and a great scorer, you have to find ways to get yourself open and get shots off. It's a dog fight.

My brother thundered me in everything most of my life. He was a great carrot out in front of me. All I wanted to do, ever, was beat him at anything.

I was thinking back when Karl Malone and I, when one of us would be in the weight room early in the morning, and the other one wasn't there, the first comment to the other person would be, 'It's mighty lonely up here.'

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

I'm not a cerebral player. When I'm out on the floor, I try to play.

I think I've preserved most of my private life, and I think that's still important for me, and that's still important for my family.

The games can go any way. As we know in this league, you can win by 30 or lose by 30 the next night. That is just the way the league is.

The main thing I worry about with the shoes I wear is comfort. What you're comfortable wearing is what you're going to play your best in.

Depending on the point in the game and what's necessary, if you can deliver the play, whatever that is - heck, if it's a screen - and you get a guy open, and he scores a big basket for you, that gives me as much of a charge as anything.

I heal quickly, and I stay in good shape, and I will stay in good shape.

You don't get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn't expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don't want to take that for granted.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

You can find advantages to being small.

I've benefited from great coaches my whole life, starting in sixth grade. To be able to pass that on is a neat experience for me.

I just always believed that all comments are better face-to-face, whether they're derogatory or whether they're not.

It's quite an honor to be selected to represent my country in the Olympics.

I had been told I might be drafted in the fourth round. 'Great,' I said at the time.

I guess I'd rather be comfortable and play well because I'm comfortable than to get recognition and play someplace where I wouldn't be comfortable and wouldn't enjoy myself.

If I pass the ball to Karl Malone, he still has to make the shot, or nothing has happened.

I'm not much of a numbers guy, and yet that's the way I'm defined a lot.

The game's a beautiful game when five guys go out there and give something of themselves so that you can win.

I was just lucky to have a uniform.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

I had little or no expectations coming in. I was thrilled when I was drafted in the first round because that meant I was going to be given a full year's chance to make the team.

It's always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else.

I never thought I'd make it in the NBA, so everything else is gravy.

I never consciously thought about going all the way through the 'Gonzaga farm system,' but that's the way it happened.

My playing time in 1992 was limited because of an injury I suffered in a practice.

I don't crush the kids. But I do want them to know that they have to earn what they get. I'm not like Jimmy Piersall's dad or anything. I mean, I tell them I'm happy if they just do the best they can. My parents were that way with me.

Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter-skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don't do the right thing.

If I could turn into my old coaches, or my parents, then I'd consider that a definite plus.

I don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.