I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

I just want to fit in and win games for my team.

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

I'm not trying to win individual awards.

I've had hard coaches all my life.

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete!

I make money, money doesn't make me.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.

Youre guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality thats the way that it is in this world.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

Deadbeat dads are like magicians they pull lifetime disappearing acts.

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

I read all of the books by Tolkien, including 'The Hobbit,' when I was in my twenties, and his deep love of nature and all things green resonates deeply with me.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

An actor should never be influenced by the surroundings, because you have to submit completely, and trust me, it's not a good feeling when you know that your father is going to come and watch you work every day!

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now.