I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

I work hard and have a winning attitude.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

Desmond Mason is one of my best friends in the world. And he's a great, great talent.

When I was 16 years old I led the team in scoring. I would attack, attack, attack and that is something I think you are just born with, I really do.

It wasn't a mistake to come out of college early. It was the best move I ever made. I had one year to practice and learn the NBA game. It was like a redshirt year.

When I was in grade school I was always the guy that got 20 or 18 points. Even back then, I would lead my team in scoring.

Obviously you look at "Magic" (Ervin Johnson) and Michael (Jordan) and you learn from them growing up, but I think you are just born with it from day one.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Really, you should always discuss the defeats because you can learn much more from failure than from success.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.