Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Friendship is a full-time job.

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy next to him. Sometimes he will have to, but most of the time he will not. Most of my rebounds came from positioning, where I was able to get the ball while in heavy traffic.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.