I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

Be brave, be victorious

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues