You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.