For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.

If not the best, than at least one of the best.

You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes ; yet they are usually left unchronicled.