Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.

Name 12 players better than me.

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

We liked the Beach Boys. There was kind of that friendly East Coast, West Coast thing between us. We were always fans. 'God Only Knows' is a brilliant record.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.