Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

Complaining is like vomiting. You might feel better after you get it out, but you make everybody around you sick.

Whatever the 25 guys on the roster, it’s my job to get the most out of those guys.

The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it, words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I'll catch any rose in my vase-shaped heart, then process it through my vascular system, until there's nothing left.

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

Can you deep fry the bacon? Oh how I wish you would.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'