I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.