For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

There's no substitute for guts.

I don't get a chance to be home much.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.