You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.
If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.
I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.
I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.
I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.
Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.
It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.
Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.
