I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.
When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.
My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.
What’s better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
My name’s been on this check for a week now.
I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
You can make all the excuses you want, but if you’re not mentally tough and you’re not prepared to play every night, you’re not going to win.
I always know what’s happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.
I’m a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.
In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.
I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.
As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.
But it is a black man’s game, and it will be forever.
Guys like Larry Bird – he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That’s not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.
I just shoot until I feel good.
It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.