I told myself if I ever made it to the level I want to be at, I'm gonna give back.
To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.
Make every day your masterpiece.
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am, my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court
My mom always tells me that... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.
Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.
As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you're supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
To me, I feel like basketball and hip-hop have always been kinda conjoined because they're very similar in their competitive nature, you know what I'm sayin'? It's about technical skill, and then there's just God-given talent.
Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
