I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standing at your side ready to catch you and put you back on your own two feet again.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

The happy people are those who are producing something.

That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.