I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

In college you learn about college

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.

The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.

For the first time I realized I could be more than a crawling little pile of bones and flesh in a onesie.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

bees dig the plum blossoms

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.