Athlete

Michael Jordan was going to do whatever was ever necessary, and certainly I can say without question, he was going to achieve and stop playing whenever he wanted to stop playing.

The more time you play, the more confidence you get. The more confidence you get, you get a little success.

Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

I grew up as a point guard, and as a point guard you learn how to navigate situations.

I always say, to this day, that the Air Jordan guy was great and God bless him. But I'll always just remember Michael, the guy.

I'd rather play bad and win than play good and lose.

It's really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.

It is interesting that I have gone through the process of representing clients as an ex-athlete. I am certainly not naive to think that the possibility of corruption isn't there.

Greatness is empowered in a system where you pass the ball, not pound it.

My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

It takes an inner strength to succeed.

The fact that Phil Jackson asked a young kid when he didn't have to and said, 'Hey, do I have permission to coach you?' Those are very powerful lessons that you learn. That's only happened to me a couple times in my entire career, that coaches would actually ask me that question. That just lets me know that he saw me for who I was.

Players who create advantages for their team at one end or the other are rare.

I was very fortunate to come into sports representation with Arn Tellem; he has helped me understand the business in the same way that we help out clients find solutions to their problems.

Greg Anthony's a good player.

I'm from Detroit, but Chicago is a second home for me.

When I played, I would never, ever try to run Reggie Miller off the line because I knew Reggie. If I ran at him, and I was trying to run him off the line, I was going to get kicked.

Individual success comes as a result of team success.