I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

In college you learn about college

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight.

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Nature is a series of murders.

I keep three hoes, But don't'call me Santa

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.