I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.
The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
That's the only reason I'm here. I don't need to play the game for any other reason than to win a championship.
I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.
It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
