For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

I live a real life so I forget to take pictures.

I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.