My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

The most important thing, the thing that unites all of us, is that we can INSPIRE and CHALLENGE one another TO BE BETTER.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

[Alex] Haley's objective was quite different. Haley was a republican. He was an integrationist. He was very opposed to black nationalism.

I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Look, I can surely say by now that I've got the antibodies to communism inside me. But when I think of consumer society, with all its tragedies, I wonder which of the two systems is better.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.