Quotes from Toni Kukoc

I feel as long as I'm playing productive minutes, I'll play. But if I'm sitting on the bench and not doing anything, then I'll retire.

I'm disappointed anytime I don't play well.

Everybody knows the NBA is the top of basketball in the world. The game here is more hard, more physical, faster than in Europe.

You never know when people with sick minds can destroy your life. It doesn't matter how well life is going on for you that moment. If that can't happen in the middle of New York City, it can happen anywhere else. If the terrorists can hit the Pentagon or the White House I don't see where it's safe.

There's a lot of things in my life that are more important I have to think about than what someone puts in the newspaper, or says on TV.

Obviously the game is more enjoyable when the ball is shared and everybody looks for each other on both ends of the floor.

Sometimes in my mind I have a picture of something happening, and because the foot is not right it is harder to happen. I see the ball and I can see myself intercepting it or rebounding or doing this stuff, and it's just not there. There's not the movement or explosiveness.

War is not game. If you lose, you can be mad or sad two or three days. War makes you sad every day, every minute.

It is a thrill and an honor to again be a part of the team that helped define my basketball career here in the United States and in Chicago. The Bulls have become my extended family, and I am really looking forward to the future and being a Bull for life.

I would watch San Antonio play and see plays I recognized from the Russian team, the Yugoslavian team.

When you see me laughing on the court, it means I'm having fun and enjoying the game.

My wife doesn't want to go. She says, 'I am your wife, I will do as a wife should.' But she is worried about what she will do in Chicago, all by herself.

Michael will always, to me, be the best player ever. He changed the game. He made it global. Every player today should tip their hat to him.

I think it's time for me to move away from basketball. It was a huge part of my life and gave me pretty much everything I desired but there comes a time when you just can't take it anymore.

Chicago is one of the greatest places when it comes to sports. It kind of reminds me of my hometown in Split. It doesn't matter how bad the soccer team is, everybody worships the soccer, the players and the games.

It was almost an accident that I got into basketball at all but fortunately it wasn't too late and I was able to be a part of a great generation for the sport.

I shot millions and millions of shots, just wanted the ball and felt good every time I released the ball, especially in those last seconds of big games.

When I was drafted by Chicago, I said, 'Wow, it would be nice to play with those guys.' I knew I'd have an automatic chance to win a championship.

I mean, if you're going to get traded, you're always looking for a good team to play with.

Those two months I didn't play didn't help me. But injuries are a part of basketball.

It's not requirement to have a point guard, you can have skill players with 3 or 4 guys on the same team playing multiple positions.

It is a much bigger thing to have a world championship with Chicago than this one in Italy.

Like everybody coming from Europe, I didn't believe it at first, but you really need time to adjust. I thought it was going to be like going from Croatia to Italy. But you really need the time just to understand things here.

Money-wise, I was probably the best player in Europe. It was safe where I was in Italy. But I wanted to play in the NBA to see if I could.