I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

In college you learn about college

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

I come from a poor family.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

We must regain Texas, peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.