We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.
I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
Perform drills that force your players to think
Practice structure determines success.
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.
[When] I was young and I listened to everything - I took everything to heart. I didn't really realize how much people want to talk badly about you when you're down, or kick you when you're down. As basketball players, people think everybody's ultra-confident. But that's not the case.
My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.
The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.
All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.
People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.
I sign so many autographs, my hand hurts every day.
