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To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

I would never, ever intentionally hurt a player contractually.

I've never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich

I'm just ultracompetitive. I will be till they put me in the grave.

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.

There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

I understand all too well that you can make legislation but you can't legislate how people feel toward one another.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it ...

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

It was clear to me that I was never going to be the same kind of player I had been. It was time to quit.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

I enjoy winning, but more importantly I enjoy the people I'm around.

The passion to win games, the incredible, focused energy and also the camaraderie of the team were all things that I really loved.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.