I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

People complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don't understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eight. No problem. I can do that anytime. That's not being cocky. That's confidence.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

Sometimes the anger directed at another is actually anger toward the self.

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

The soreness I have is expected. I have total movement.

Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.