Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you. A mountain is not a man, though, and a stone is a mountain's daughter. I trust myself, and I trust my mules. I won't fall.

Failure is the foundation of success and the means by which it is achieved.

I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.