It's great to win, regardless of how you did it.

My impression is that the NBA always precluded anything else.

Magic is the man. No one is in his class.

I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.

I don't think you ever hear anybody shoot the last shot and say they didn't think it was in.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

You never think about being wide open. I don't know if I can describe the feeling. Tremendous.

With kids and all the other activities around the house, I'm finding it harder to give my full attention to basketball.

I think I laid it all out there for 19 years, and you don't always achieve all the goals that you shoot for.

The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I was just lucky to have a uniform.

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

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

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