I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?

If I'm afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.

Can a rose survive in winter?

I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music.

I don't get pictures taken of me when I leave clubs.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.