I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

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.

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.

Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.