My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

My old coach used to say two points was two points.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

We have life. That's what's beautiful.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.

You have to be responsible for yourself, refer to yourself, develop yourself, help others, whatever it may be. So we shouldn't have an idea that the whole thing is to shatter ones ego.