I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

My old coach used to say two points was two points.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you.

Iggy. This is not a democracy, " I said, (...)"It'sa Maxocracy.

The coach who goes home and doesn't think about the game he just lost is bound to repeat his mistakes.

Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.