Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

I work hard and have a winning attitude.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

When I was 16 years old I led the team in scoring. I would attack, attack, attack and that is something I think you are just born with, I really do.

It wasn't a mistake to come out of college early. It was the best move I ever made. I had one year to practice and learn the NBA game. It was like a redshirt year.

When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

This was Dante's. Crazy was what we had for breakfast when we ran out of Corn Flakes

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.