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.

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.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

For it is in giving that we receive.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.