You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I'm wearing a put together from a little shop that I favor called The Back of My Closet.

If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

We did some massive flirting in front of the nation, but there was never anything more than that.

If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

The universe is pregnant with signs that recall the presence of the Creator.