If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working on it.

I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail.

It's not about the shoes, it's what you do in them.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.