The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

I don't think I'm boring.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

and sadness clung to mebecause she did not knowhow to be alone.

Courage is being who you are.Courage is sacred of thyself.

Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather by your friends.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

We must constantly dare ourselves in the small things, until courage becomes a habit of mind that will serve us when we are unexpectedly tested.

next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.

It must require bravery to be honest all the time.