Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

I had my baby around 20 and I was always working on music, but I was always working on music, but I was doing other stuff as well.

What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

I don't get no respect, no respect at all!