Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: “What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

Listen to others very carefully. Shut your inner noise and focus on verbal and non verbal cues.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Incurable means curable from within.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.