When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

I love being under pressure. Even the pressure put on me by the media. That is how you outdo yourself.

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

I don't think I'm boring.

You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

Self-master is the greatest success.

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

All the drawing lacks is the final touch: To add eyes to the dragon

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

Gwen Cassidy needed a man. Desperately. Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette.

I still don't get golf.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.