There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

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.

You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.

A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

I think it's better to be a hair band than a bald band.