I like pressure. I thrive on it.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.

I'll play until my knees fall off.

People probably assume I sleep in my uniform. Then I get up and go to the mall or the market in my uniform.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.

When you have teammates just as talented as you, it's kind of weird to get all the attention.

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

I knew I would be able to come back from the injury 100 percent.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

Gracious words revived our spirit and restored our soul.

Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.

I love cold, rainy weather.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.