Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.

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.

My God, my GodMay there be no endTo the sea, to the sand, The splash of the water, The glow of the sky, The prayer of man

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

It was bitingly cold up here,and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I love every second of being a mom.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.