By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry.

I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.