When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

The positive effect music has in our lives is understated. It can influence mind-state and motivate us to reach for the stars.

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

Children's games are stronger than you remember once you've grown up and left them behind. They're always fair, and never kind.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.