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.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts.