I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA..

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened..

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus..

The same way you slow me down: … You can’t..

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it..

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a ….

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way..

It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just t….

Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are sta….

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life..

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then….

Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He….

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool..

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates.

The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with.

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair comp….

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston..

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me..

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game.

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson..

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level..