I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

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.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others...

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

It's not that I'm stupid. I just don't think sometimes.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Don't listen to anybody who's trying to bring you down. There's so much negativity in the world. If you really want something, then you go for it.

I wield my spear in the name of justice!