I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.
The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.
I'm not chasing championships. Championship's chasing us. I'm not doing that. I want my players to be better people once they leave campus because this is a life lesson. This is more than basketball. This is life lessons that we're trying to teach.
I want to be a champion.
I want to be one of the best players in the game.
I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.
Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
I'm not going to disappear.
I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.
You play with your soul as well as your body.
A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
Basketball. I love it. I can't believe these giants move like kids. They are so flexible.
One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.
I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
I play a lot of basketball.
