People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.

You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.

Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do.

The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

If you love the game and you love playing, just have fun and enjoy it. Work hard and don't get bogged down by it.

I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.

Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.

Focus your heart-felt intuition onto things that really matter to you.

The main thing is finding the time to sit down and write. You have to make the time.

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think. We were on the Métro in Paris on a family holiday, and somebody came up to me and asked me to be a model, and that's how it started.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.