I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.

I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

My best move is probably my pull up jump shot.

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.

We were excited to win, staying undefeated is just the icing.

The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?