I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

I don't think I'm boring.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

You don't have to take yourself so seriously all the time.

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.