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Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

The University of Houston has made an excellent choice by hiring Ron Hughey as its new women's basketball coach. Coach Hughey will bring an expertise and energy level to the program that will excite fans and put Houston Women's Basketball back on the map. Having watched him coach up close, I know his players will improve immensely and love learning from him. I look forward to following Houston Basketball in the years to come.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.