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1. When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
2. I can do something physically the other guy can’t. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
3. Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, ‘If you have a dream, chase it.’
4. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
5. I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation’s Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
6. Some people might not like him because he’s my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
7. I realize that things happen for a reason.
8. I have to be working, doing things. That’s the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
9. I just work out hard enough that, if I’m craving something, I eat it and know I’m going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
10. For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
11. To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn’t want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
12. But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He’s stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he’d probably go tell me to go do something.
13. All records are not made to be broken.
14. You’re a professional. You don’t need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you’re playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
15. If I got something to say or do to a man, I’m going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That’s just me now.
16. I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I’m doing what I want to do now.
17. Did you really think I would sell you out?
18. You have injuries that bother you when you’re not playing. When that horn blows, you don’t feel it.
19. They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
20. At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.