Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

You must endure willingly for the fulfillment dreams

Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

High-quality food is better for your health.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.

I'm in the hands of Jesus.

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for.