When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach.

All life forms add their own colour in the world. It is important we embrace all the colours with equal value.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

We're not thinking straight if we say we want to be like Jesus but we don't want to go through anything Jesus went through!

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.