I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Attitude is altitude.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, " he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

Never take your eyes off the ball - even when it's in the referee's pocket.

Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

The transcendental knowledge of devotional service is digested by the engyme of humility.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.