Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.