He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

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.

Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

Football is a team game. So is life.

Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.