Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm not going to act like I'm this person that I'm not, because I operate bad in that space, you know what I'm saying?
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.
I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.
What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.
Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.
There's no substitute for hard work. If you work hard and prepare yourself, you might get beat, but you'll never lose.
I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.
I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
My nature is to keep things inside. In time, I'll be comfortable stepping up when I think the team could use my input.
What I don't like in my job is somebody who doesn't put forth the effort. Somebody who doesn't come to play every day.
Military veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country carry a status we all should appreciate and honor.
My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good.
I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.
I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.
All my life, I believe what my mind tells me; what my heart tells me. All the way back to Congo, it has worked for me.
It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.
There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.
Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
I don't have to make a point. I'm George Bush. I'm the president. I built that arena, so I don't have to make a point.
We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.
I'm a golf junkie. I watch every tournament pretty much. I watch interviews. I watch warm-up routines. All that stuff.
I'm a loyal guy. I'm a man of my word, and I assumed other people would be that way. That's just not the case in life.
If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'
I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.
Yoga, meditation, and unplugging the phone at night to make sure I get enough hours of sleep. That's huge for athletes.
I know people expect a lot from me and want to see certain things when I play, but it's not really any pressure for me.
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.
I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.
We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.
To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.
It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don't know any of those things.
I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.
When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.
I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.
Obviously, drafts sometimes are good ones, or bad ones; I think you can get a good, quality player late in the lottery.
Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.
I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.
If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.
In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.
I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.