I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.'Does that scare you?'Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father.'It's like something's waiting.

There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

A woman's heart should be so lost in the remembrance of Allah, that a man would have to seek him first in order to find her.

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

You try to get rid of the things that are weighing you down.

The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.