When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

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!

Dating' stressful. I'd have to dress up.

To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.