Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing.

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.

No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

You are a prisoner of conformity when you care about what other people think.

Create space in your life for people who deserve it.

Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

If I’d stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don’t think I would have survived high school.

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.