What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

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.

Strive to be a proactive participant rather than a passive procrastinator.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

People are never too young or too old to look for human connection.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

Being a New Yorker is never having to say you are sorry.

I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices.

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.