If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

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.

Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.