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I hate to lose more than I like to win.

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

First master the fundamentals.

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

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

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

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Guys like Larry Bird
he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

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

I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

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.

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.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

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

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out of bounds.

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 wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

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.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

I just shoot until I feel good.

I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

You're all playin' for second place.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.