Name 12 players better than me.

You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.

I Hated Duke. I Felt Like They Only Recruited Black Players That Were Uncle Toms.

Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

For me, Duke was personal. I hated Duke and I hated everything I felt Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited players who were Uncle Toms.

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.

There's always going to be criticism when your name is Jalen. You have to wear a bulletproof vest and be ready for it.

Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.

When you're not winning it's about how you're not getting it done.

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Let thy power be

Life is easy if you let it and hard if you make it.

Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

Life is too short for chess.

The power of people, when they focus on something positive, never fails to amaze me.

According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.