You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

Fear is excitement without the breath.

Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being separate and distinct selves.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial.

I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me . . . no one can do that.