We aren't playing as well as we'd like.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

I know sometimes I need to be more like M.J., but M.J. also needs to be more like me. He needs to be the player he is with more my mentality.

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

The mailman doesn't deliver on Sundays.

Michael Jordan is probably the greatest scorer to ever play in the game. But I may go as far to say Lebron James may be the the greatest player to ever play the game.

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.