I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

I do not know the answers to life's hard questions, but I do know the One who knows them and that's sufficient...for now.

Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity.

We have to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we've been.

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.