Tim Hardaway

You know, wiry guys like Gary Payton, they didn't think he was strong or Rod Strickland, but they were strong.

You know, it was hard to post them up.

It was hard to get around them at times.

So, yeah, you know, when you play against them, you're like, oh, wow, you know, you got some strength to you.

Then you got some bulky guys that was weak.

You'd think they were strong, but when you box them out or you push them, that's for nothing right there.

All them muscles are for nothing.

Well, you must have also excelled at football and other sports.

No, I did not.

I was playing football, and I was in high school, and a guy was on my team that was a running back.

We was playing against some big white guys, and they tackled him real hard right in front of the bench, and they said, and there's more of that where—

this comes from.

I went, I walked to the locker room and I took off my shoulder pads and my uniform.

And I went and sat up in the stands, and I reached over the fence and put all that over the fence right there by them.

And they was like, Hardaway, Hardaway, where's Hardaway?

In high school?

In high school.

What year?

It was like my sophomore year.

I was going to play quarterback.