You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.

Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.

I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.