I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

I get homesick.

I like being by myself.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

I’ve got a theory that if you give 00% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didnt play against the toughest competition in high school but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. Youve got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something but if you get it on tape and show it to them it is so much more effective.

Ive got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time somehow things will work out in the end.

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you are able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.