Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

With the power of love

...you never knew anybody completely. Not even yourself.

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.