To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

It takes people a while to trust you.

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.

I realize that things happen for a reason

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].

Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the colour of my skin.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.