I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.

I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

I meet a lot of people.

I'm still doing something I love to do.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a song, what I usually do is work the lyric out first from some basic idea that I had, and then I get an acoustic guitar and I sit by the tape recorder and I try to bang it out as it comes.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Enjoy your food enjoy your life.

Trust in human nature is acceptance of the good and bad of it and it is hard to trust those who do not admit their own weakness.

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

I have never liked haircuts.

It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

My first win feels better than a draw!

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

But as coaches we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that and well see.

Whether you're tall or shorter, or a little bigger, more curves, skinny - you just have to be proud of what you have, and everyone is beautiful.