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

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

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.

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.

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.

Is it better to be useful than successful?

I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I think I asphyxiated my children.

To feel is to communicate with your Spirit-with God. Feeling is God's mirror; intuition is God's telephone. To seek your truth is to deepen your connection to Spirit.

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

Even when I take the path to go be a CEO for a month, or a CEO for a day- music is still there. It’s an extremely important part of what I am.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.