There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

Hold yourself in great esteem.

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!

What you get free costs too much.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing she is just so beautiful.

Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

You see somebody rapping and you're like, "Nah, my cousin can do that." You're spoiled by the experience. Overseas, it's still something that people can appreciate.

Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink