As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need.

I just want to go as far as I can take myself. No limits.

Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

I appreciate every team that wants me and I take on every challenge.

I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.

Where soil is, men grow, Whether to weeds or flowers.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.