Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a program that fits your style of play.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

All I have to do is just enjoy my moment and have fun.

Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning.

I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

I feel I can fit with any player in the world.

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

What about the future?""We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.

I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.