You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

I don't think I'm boring.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.

If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world.

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

To read is to voyage through time.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.