I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
• Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
• My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
• I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
• My health is fine.