You’ll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

Sometimes you have to forget what's gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what's coming next.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.