You have to step up when your number is called.

I've never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that's what I love to do, so I'm going to bring it.

You have to step up when your number is called.

Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.

Basically, I'm more confident in my whole game.

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.

I never really looked at myself as a scorer, but if the shot is there, I'm certainly going to take it.

I think around the league, I'm getting more respect. And that's great.

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.

We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Everybody thinks I'm, like, a bad boy. I've had my day, but I just sit at home and play the blues mostly.

Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

The concept of God in Jewish orthodoxy is one where you're having constant quarrels with God. Where I come from, in Islam, the only concept of God is you submit to Him and you obey His commands; no quarreling allowed.