I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

We are the products of fate, from beginning to end

In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when a child is involved.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

My teachers were often very eccentric.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!