But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

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.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

I make myself into a new image in order to produce new images.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.