I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

Change what is into the wonder it can be.

Then came nightthat was like falling water.At times, for hours, a bird spirit, half buzzard, half swan, just above the rushesfrom which a snow-storm howls.

When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.

Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.