I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

I try to help other people get through difficult times in their own lives.

It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be in pain.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.