This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

If you do the best you can, you have nothing to be ashamed of. A defeat is not a disgrace.

I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I'm not the kind of guy who just goes up to women.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

I lost control of myself a couple times in the playoffs. I have to keep cooler in the future.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

True humanity demands that every human should be loved equally, but if that's not possible for you then at least love whoever you wants to but respect everyone.

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.