I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

I love taking the ball from other people. It's like taking their manhood.

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

As long as we keep winning, I'm happy.

I haven't really reached my peak yet.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

I'm pretty athletic. I do things sometimes even I can't believe.

A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah.

Idealistic world views should be our focus.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

Now and then, there's a fool such as I.

I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

Leo's biggest surprise: One look from Jason, and all three of them knew the game plan. When had that happened, that they could read each other so well?

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.