I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head against it.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I'm pretty sure most of us would be more fulfilled if we didn't fixate on fulfillment quite so much.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.