I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

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.

Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.

i can accept FAILURE, everyone falls at something.but what i can't accept is NOT TRYING.

An event is never the objective. It is the platform for achieving an objective.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Confession is a kind of pride.

When the family dies, the nation follows.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot.