Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

Why not see which is brighter: your aura or the sun?