“There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don’t understand that”

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

I have always been confident in my skills and once the game got going I knew I was probably the best player on the floor most of the time whether it was junior high, high school or college. I knew I had control of the game.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It’s the storytelling.

He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

I’ve always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I’ve been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot – not in anybody else’s, not in anybody else’s in the world.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

My name’s been on this check for a week now.

As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.

Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player’s hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that’s what I’m in this for.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That’s not really bragging; it’s just that I’d put the time in.

You’re all playin’ for second place.

There’s so many different elements to Oakland.

I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, Many times it’s connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.

I would say that kids are great in many ways.

Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.

In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view.

Can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down