I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.

Joking with somebody's emotions makes you cold person.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.