You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

Always see the opportunity brought along with every problem you face

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

I love exercise but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates and taking dance lessons.