Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Virtue is health vice is sickness.

We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.

If we need women in our defense forces, we must not need much defense.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.