I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Just because there are thingsyou still want, that doesn’t meanyou can’t feel gratitude for all thewealth and abundancealready in your life.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.