If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down gather at home plate hugging and it's not just because they're winning it's that shared moment that feeling of - we enter the world alone we leave alone.

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

Some players you pat their butts some players you kick their butts some players you leave alone.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

In 1981 at age 31 I was voted the best player in basketball and the most valuable player in the league.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.