I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

We feel it's necessary to reduce accommodation.

He [Astaire] was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.