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.

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.

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.

Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Laurel returned to CJ's bedroom. "Do you want me to remove your clothes?" "Hell, yeah, " he said, and the growly expression immediately vanished.

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.