“But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'”

“Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I think the players win the championship, and the organization has something to do with it, don't get me wrong. But don't try to put the organization above the players.”

“I Own the guy guarding me”

“Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”

“The chameleon Love can feed on the air”

“All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.”