I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

I don't think that once you get to one level, you can relax. You've got to keep pushing.

You're all playin' for second place.

When you accept you are a winner, that is when you will triumph.

I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

Temperance is love in training.

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.