My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.