I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

As long as you're alive you're going to be thrown a few obstacles. It's what you do with them that matters.

Life without love is a cold branch of a non-grounded tree.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Do something every single day that scares you...and then watch growth happen.

The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".