It Was A Challenge To My Teammates

A Big Dog Tends To Be Much More At Ease With Kids And Gentle With Them Than A Little One That's Always Yelping.

When I Was A Freshman, I Fooled Around With Shooting Free Throws This Way: For Some Reason, I Thought You Had To Stay Within The Top Half Of That Free-throw Circle, So I Would Step Back To Just Inside The Top Of The Circle, Take Off From Behind The Line And Dunk. They Outlawed That, But I Wouldn't Have Done It In A Game, Anyway. I Was A Good Free Throw Shooter In College." Actually He Was A 62% Free Throw Shooter, Which Is Poor Except In Comparison To His 51% As A Pro.

We Make Too Much Of Winning. The Mere Fact Of Winning Doesn't Make You Great.

They Were So Clever Finding Ways To Get Me The Ball. They Had To Do More Than Just Give Up Open Shots. They Had To Avoid Fouls And Pass Me The Ball In Traffic.

The Toughest Thing For Me Was Growing Up And Being Stared At And Being Looked At And Being Talked About In That Particular Way. Other Than That It Was A Good Childhood.