My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.

I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.