I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

I am loving. I am forgiving.I am at peace.

Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.

I am not superior than anybody, don't say i am, else i won't defend you when you get caught.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

I've had a number of opportunities to hear Andrei Ryabov perform and I am amazed at the high level of creativity, technique and freshness in his playing.

Shun security, I advise aspiring novelists when they complain to me that they are stuck. Get disoriented. Maybe your agonizing writing block isnt agonizing enough. Your enemy is comfort.

Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.