Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

My name's been on this check for a week now.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

You're all playin' for second place.

I just shoot until I feel good.

First master the fundamentals.

I like being by myself.

I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Anytime you've got an opportunity to play for your country and win a gold medal, I think that takes it all. That's the greatest thing you could ever achieve in your sport. So, I have been very fortunate to play on great teams, but the gold medal was probably the best.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

Before every game I used to go out and shot the same shots over and over and over. In the summer time I spent a lot of time just shooting. So really it just came natural. Whether it's a tie game or down by 1 or up by five, it was always the same shot. So I always felt comfortable with the ball in my hands because it was in there a million times before.

I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

I don't care, but I don't get bitter about anything as long as I can work and do the things I love. And it would be a beautiful world if those things I love and that mean something could remain as they are.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.