If you walk through a crowd with Jordan, you see the same thing he sees, you see all the eyes aiming him. And I asked, "what do you see in the crowd?" He said, "sometimes, I see a father and a son. They may not think I even notice them. But sometimes Jordan said, "I wonder, if they have any idea how much I like to be them."
"When my father died, I had him for 32 years. I was very lucky. I look at that as being lucky not as being disappointed that he wasn't around anymore. I was lucky he was there when I needed him that he can influence my life to look at situation that I used to help to make my decision to this day. Some kids never had dad. Sure I would love to have him now, but, people put on this earth for reason, and you realize the time that you're here you never know when that's gonna be taken away from. That's one thing he taught me. But why there's a hill, why they are here, you should make an impact on someone's life. He made impact on my life. That's the third championship, my father kept kind of hitting towards me playing baseball, stop playing basketball, wanted me to give baseball a shot, cause's that was the accident started when I was 6 years old I played baseball and he felt that I could play baseball and do it with the same conviction and attitude that I play basketball."