I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

It was very, very humiliating. It's very, very humiliating. It's vital that I won't be playing like that on Sunday. And I'll be making sure that I won't be playing like that.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

That one has to be playing in order to be playing a game seems equally implausible. When professional athletes are performing in assigned games for wages, although they are certainly playing games, we are not at all inclined to conclude from that fact that they are without qualification playing. For we think of professional athletes as working when they play their games and as playing when they go home from work to romp with their children.

Detroit is playing good and all four of those guys deserve to be here. But this game has always been about style and flamboyance. I think that will show up more. At the end of a year, when a team wins a championship, they talk about teamwork. At an All-Star Game, it's all about dunks, the lobs and the shooting.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.