I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?
Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.
I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'
Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.
Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.
As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.
My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender
Offense is not equal opportunity
As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.
Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.
Get the winners into the game.
I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.
