I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play in the game. But I may go as far to say Lebron James may be the the greatest player to ever play the game.

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.

We aren't playing as well as we'd like.

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

Give your all to every experience, feel it breathe it appreciate it, nothing lasts forever, when it's gone you'll remember the feeling it once gave you and sometimes that's enough.

The real mystery isn't what's under the redaction mark, but what's above it.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.