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

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.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

We're all negotiators.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal.

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.