I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural they become easier. But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win; that [...]

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. And I don’t cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from [...]

A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, … But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause. As far as carrying the torch for the years [...]

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good. [...]

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle. Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger [...]

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day. Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game. I can [...]

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing. Age is whatever you think it is. [...]