I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Pain is weakness leaving the body

Love is not blind - it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less.

Language is no barrier for a lover of words.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

I wasn't born a superstar.

I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.