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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

You want to play as long as you can. The old, unwritten rule: If you make it to the NBA, you play as long as you can - and you play one more year.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.