 Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed. |
| I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. |
| When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. |
| I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet. |
| I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit. |
| If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem. |
| And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it. |
| The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. |
| In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life. |
| In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league. |
| There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. |
| I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life. |
| One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life. |
| If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end. |
| Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain. |
| When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight. |
| When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think. |
| My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about. |
| I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good. |
| And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old. |
