If I don't like a person and a person doesn't like me fine, that's mutual respect.
Don't come to me and smile and then stab me behind my back.
Saw the best boxer, pound for pound: Roy Jones. Not a lot of hype, though.
I want to play 11, 12 years right here and then retire - and win us some national championships, and be the Michael Jordan of Charlotte. This is the place that drafted me, that paid me. This is the place I should be loyal to.
I picked it up just for relaxation. I can sit down and get into the game and escape that it's a big game tomorrow, escape that we need a win, or whatever. My wife knows, after a game I get home at 12:30, I'm playing chess till 3 o'clock in the morning.
If I'm on fire, don't spit on me. I won't spit on you. That's respect. You go your way, and I'll go mine.
The UNLV championship game against Duke, I didn't shoot the last shot. Choked. It took 10 years for me to say that. I had to be in the NBA five, six years for me to say that aloud.
I remember in Charlotte, they looked to me every day. I'm 30 now. And now it's, 'Let's just win.' Maybe when I was 26 there would have been ego. Now, I just appreciate the recognition for the defense.
Girl-wise, I never got the girl. Because of my mother and our economy, I never had clothes. And I never - like I said - dated. I didn't date at all. I was never a guy who had girlfriends.
In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn't happen.
I've been in the frame of mind in Charlotte that, O.K., I'm going to play defense. But I've never been in a frame of mind that my defense is going to generate my offense.
I have always wanted to spend my entire career in the Charlotte community and concentrate on bringing the city a championship.
No question, everybody knows my back was the main reason I retired.
Most of the power forwards in the NBA are 6'10', 6'11', making it difficult for a player at 6'7', 6'8' to the play the position.
I think I'm caught up in playing in New York. Here, my mind is cluttered worrying about things.
I can remember my jersey being the No. 1 seller for like two years, and I think it was the color of the jersey.
When people talk to me, they want to know about Grandmama, they want to know about UNLV, and how was it playing with Muggsy. You don't have to be a basketball fan to be a Muggsy fan. The shortest guy to ever play in the league, I get that question all the time.
I only won one national championship.
I'm always on the players' side, of course. The owners are going to take their fill, but I'm always on the players' side.
When it comes to the younger generation, anything on the floor I'll criticize - not playing hard, not doing this, fighting, not giving your all. Off the floor, you guys are on your own.
