When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That’s not normal, even for my age.
When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.
When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.
What I learned in my time isn’t necessarily being taught now, and I’d like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.
I’ve had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
Kobe’s an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today’s players.
I got all A’s and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.