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

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 want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.