Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

At some point we all have to move on. Im here to create some kind of legacy in Brooklyn.

It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.

The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.

There's a line that separates having confidence and being conceited. I don't cross that line, but I have a lot of confidence in myself.

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.

So Santa Claus is bogus but Grim Reapers are the genuine article. What does that say about the world?

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older as spreading oak gives more shelter.

One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

Rather than beautifying one’s own creation, make better the environment that surrounds it.