My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

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.

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

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.

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.

There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?