The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

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.

Only other people can make you feel real.

I don’t know what to do with my future.

Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.

Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them".

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.