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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.


Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.


Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.


Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.


That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.


No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.


Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.


Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.


I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.


My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.


My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.


I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.


I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.


Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.


The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.


I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.


I'm a lifelong stutterer.


Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.


Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.


At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.