I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism.

We will K‘Vruck the world.

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.