In some ways, you have to fail some. You have to figure that stuff out, because if I didn't have an Hakeem Olajuwon, would I have been able to achieve the heights that I did achieve? I don't think so. He pushed me, and I pushed him.
You give a team a month - three weeks - to get together, and you're going to make mistakes. You're just not going to be as sharp.
What's great is what Coach Popovich and R.C. Buford and the whole family have done a great job in continuing to build the franchise and still be very, very competitive.
It takes time; you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. It took them a year or two to get their legs underneath them and figure things out, and even then, that run was relatively short.
Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.
You are overboard in deep open water without a PFD (personal floatation device), or at least that's what your instructor is yelling. Sink or swim, plebe.
I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.
My fouls used to be ticky-tacky, but I learned real fast to make them count.
Sometimes I feel like hitting somebody. You look at the refs and they say, 'We'll take care of it.' I think, 'Yeah? You won't take care of it the way I'd like to take care of it.'
I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.
I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
If you're a better scorer than me, I'll put you down on the block; you score. I don't care. I can do other things.
Popovich is always talking about team.
When you get on the floor, you've got to think you're the best player. Everybody does that.
When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
It's tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it's very tough.
