I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

I work hard and have a winning attitude.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

When I was 16 years old I led the team in scoring. I would attack, attack, attack and that is something I think you are just born with, I really do.

It wasn't a mistake to come out of college early. It was the best move I ever made. I had one year to practice and learn the NBA game. It was like a redshirt year.

When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

The way to Elfin is found on the pathThat weaves through the Misty ForestThat lives between the Mountain of VisionAnd the River of Reality

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

I think Tim Matheson is amazing and I think he's amazing in this - I haven't seen the film [Killing Reagan] since we shot it, but I think he's just incredible.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

I read an interview with Aaron Sorkin and he said he plays every part when he's writing. I thought, "Oh, I do that too! I'm doing okay."

Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.