It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

The beauty of being is the bliss of blessedness.

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

I like comedy as a group sport.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.