As a newcomer, I was often expected to carry the bags of the older players, or get them burgers. That can make you feel pretty miserable.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

Overcome obstacles as they come rather than worry about when they will arrive.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Death laughs when old women frolic.

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.