As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

You're all playin' for second place.

When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray. You will find the peace to overcome the pain.

Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again.

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.